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Three hours beyond the usual time of the mail-delivery had elapsed, wild rumors were spread abroad, a general rising in Leinster was announced, and the non-arrival of the post had an ominous appearance, and increased the alarm.
From the three rural mail-delivery boxes at the gate, he gathered that three families were crowded into the house which had seemed none too large for his father, his mother, and himself. He put on his glasses and read the names shudderingly Jean-Baptiste Loyette, Patrick McCartey, and S. Petrofsky.
One day she found in the waste-paper basket which she searched carefully after every mail-delivery, an advertisement which commended to the buying public a new make of type-writer. "Many public institutions," thus the advertisement ran, "use our well tried machines in their offices, because these machines will bear the most rigid examination. Their reputation has crossed the ocean.
To know if it rains at night, they look down at shining pavements; they do not hold their faces to the sky. Now, I am a near-city-dweller. For ten months in the year, I am particular about mail-delivery, and eat an evening dinner, and occasionally agitate the matter of having a telephone in every room in the house.
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