On receipt of a | | postage-stamp we will send a copy of No. 1 to any one | | desiring to get up a club.

"It'll buy a postage-stamp, won't it?"she was fairly aggressive now,"an' thar's a envelop what wa'n't put up ter auction in the cupboard an' a paper-bag I kin iron out,ketch me a-gwine ter the neighbors an' a-beggin' fer writin'-paperan' I'll jest set daown an' write a line ter Mis' Halsey.

When not engaged in running errands or fussing over his postage-stamp album, Willie spent most of his time teasing old Scraggs, the scrivener, an unsuccessful teetotaler.

Postage-stamp-cases may be divided into one speciesthe "Wonderland.

[This pamphlet is sold with the "Wonderland" Postage-Stamp Case, published by Messrs. Emberlin and Son.]

For such sending the postage-stamp was necessary.

The postage-stamp had certainly been put on when the envelope was prepared for its intended purpose.

Then there was again silence between them for a quarter of an hour, during which Curlydown was hurrying through his work, and Bagwax was meditating whether it was certainly his duty to make known the facts as to the postage-stamp.

'You see that postage-stamp?'

'You see that postage-stamp?'

Then they had to get a postage-stamp.

The dinner was very pleasant; and as Curlydown and his guest drank their bottle of port together at the open window, it was definitely settled that Bagwax should reveal the mystery of the postage-stamp to Sir John Joram at once.

The date of the fabrication of the postage-stamp would of course require to be verified by official report;but if the facts as stated by Bagwax were thus confirmed, then the fraudulent nature of the envelope would be put beyond doubt.

But when it came to the postage-stamp, then he told himself very quickly that the envelope had been fraudulently handled.

It might well be that this gang of ruffians,for it was manifest that there had been such a gang,finding the envelope addressed by the man to his wife, had fraudulently,and as foolishly as fraudulently, endeavoured to bolster up their case by the postage-stamp and the postmark.

'But any babe may understand that,' said Bagwax, pressing forward and putting his forefinger on the obliteration of the postage-stamp.

There was no doubt much in the postage-stamp, but not enough to upset the overwhelming weight of evidence by which the verdict had been obtained.

Adamson, when he had read the reports in the newspapers, and had learned that the postage-stamp had been detected, and that Shand was at home, also looked about him a little.

Something as to the postage-stamp and the postmarks was told her; but with a woman's indomitable obstinacy she closed her mind against all that,as indeed did also the banker.

'Is her position in the world to depend upon a postage-stamp?' said the banker, intending to support his wife.

Could it be that Shand was false, that Bagwax was false, that the postage-stamp was false,and that he only believed them to be true?

I know all about the postage-stamp, of course.'

'If Secretaries of State and judges of the Court of Queen's Bench only had their wits about them, the postage-stamp ought to have been quite sufficient,' said Bagwax, sententiously.

In case the unforgettable fact should escape the tourist, the government have worked the colors into the ingenious and pretty island postage-stamp, and many of our German friends wear bathing-pants of the same unobtrusive tints.

You've only got to clap a postage-stamp on it, and there you are!"