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

CHAPTER XX.

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HARROWFORK POST-OFFICE.

A gloomy Picture--Beautiful Village--Litigation in Harrowfork--A model Post Master--The Excitement--Petitioning the Department--Conflicting Statements--The decisive Blow--The new Post Master--The "Reliable Man"--Indignant Community--Refusal to serve--An Editor's Candidate--The Temperance Question--Newspaper Extracts--A Mongrel Quotation--A Lull--A "Spy in Washington"--Bad Water--New Congressmen--The Question revived--Delegate to Washington--Obliging Down Easter--The lost Letters--Visit to the Department--Astounding Discovery--Amusing Scene--A Congressman in a "Fix"--The Difficulty "arranged" 289