Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department

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A competent Assistant--Yielding to Temptation--An easy Post Master--Whispers of Complaint--Assistant embarrassed--Application to his Uncle--The Refusal--Value of a kind Word--Resort to Depredations--Evidences of Guilt--Decoy Letter taken--The Bowling Saloon--The Agent worsted--The Restaurant--Bother of the Credit System--The fatal Bank-Note--Keen Letter to the Agent--The Arrest--The next Meeting 52