"He asked the postmaster if anyone had found a big sum of money, and of course Mr. Rockslow as he always isdidn't think about the advertisement in the Banner.

No one in any of these three cases would have desired that the sitting member should appoint, say, the postmasters, or collectors of Inland Revenue for his constituency.

III.Between Australia and Berkshire Meadows, having the postmaster at Farnborough under his thumb, read all George's letters to Susan before they were delivered.

At a shallow stream which they forded, in the mud of which the wheels became imbedded, resisting every effort for their release, Quiroga actually hooked the postmaster of the district, who had hastened to the spot, to the carriage, and made him join his exertions to those of the horses until the vehicle was extricated, when he sped onward with fearful velocity, asking at every post-station, "When did the chasquí from Buenos Ayres pass?

Wherever an office was found open, we left behind us an irate postmaster breathing all sorts of contemplated vengeance upon the disturbers of his peace.

Lunch at Mazreh consisted of damp, mouldy bread, and some sweet, sickly liquid the postmaster called tea.

We sealed them in a tin can, and when we met the postmaster at sea, we threw it over.

Mr. SHORTER presented the postmaster with an autographed copy of his magnum opus on the BRONTËS.

If a secluded neighborhood does not receive a Government postmaster, but is disposed to welcome him with tarry hands to a feathery bed, it can be left without the mails.

His great rival in patronage is the Postmaster-General, who has power to appoint and remove all deputy-postmasters, which, as the number of post-offices is 22,688, amounts to something considerable.

"The mail didn't come in this morning," shouted the postmaster after them.

These stamps the postmasters sold at a little more than the expense of printing.

" "Shall I tell the postmaster to put your mail in my box?" he asked.

We trust that the youthful villain Charlton will not be allowed to escape, but that he will receive the long term provided by the law for thieving postmasters.

He would not trust postmasters, for they were officers of the United States government.

He proposed instead a law forbidding Federal postmasters to deliver publications prohibited by the laws of a State, Territory, or District.