Let's play postman.

The children no longer bounded to meet the postman, but waited till Joanna brought in the mail.

Why slug a postman.

A crowd of idlers followed the postman with this epistolary phenomenon, in the hope of getting some knowledge of its contents.

Shall I run and get the letter-bag as he passes the gate?" "Yes, do," they all cried; and the boy bounded off full of fun, greeting the postman with such a burst of merry apostrophe, that the man shook with laughing at him.

We were asked to subscribe, a few days later, at Pahlgam to provide the postman with a new pony, his late lamented "Tattoo" having been startled by a flash of lightning at that very spot, and having paid for the error with his life.

In the street where we first noticed the stove-pipes sprouting from the pavement, we saw a postman in the regulation costume of the French postman, with the regulation black, shiny wallet-box hanging over his stomach, and the regulation pen behind his ear, smartly delivering letters from house to house.

THE OFFICE OF POSTMAN FELL VACANT IN OTFORD-UNDER-THE-WOLD The duties of postman at Otford-under-the-Wold carried Amuel Sleggins farther afield than the village, farther afield than the last house in the lane, right up to the big bare wold and the house where no one went, no one that is but the three grim men that dwelt there and the secretive wife of one, and, once a year when the queer green letter came, Amuel Sleggins the postman.

You have reason then to complain of my discretion that you tell the postman to hand your letters to yourself only.

Well, as I was saying, I noticed this stamp, and asked the postman what country it came from.

Phoebe sighed afresh in disappointment, her ears still strained the while to catch the first sound of that primitive horn, wherewith the postman in his cart, as he mounts the Langdale Valley, summons the dwellers in the scattered farms and cottages to come and take their letters.

Only the old, old message, so often told that it seems scarcely worth while to bother the postman about it.

The news has been received with much satisfaction by several dogs, who have now promised to cut out postmen from their menu.