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The mails were conveyed from one settlement to another by the postman, who traveled over the hills and through the valleys on horseback, and made known his approach to each post-village by the winding of a huge horn, which was always carried by his saddle-bows ready for use.
"PIGWACKET, sometimes spelt Pequawkett. A post-village and township in Co., State of , situated in a fine agricultural region, 2 thriving villages, Pigwacket Centre and Smithville, 3 churches, several school houses, and many handsome private residences. Mink River runs through the town, navigable for small boats after heavy rains.
"PIGWACKET, sometimes spelt Pequawkett. A post-village and township in Co., State of ,situated in a fine agricultural region, 2 thriving villages, Pigwacket Centre and Smithville, 3 churches, several school houses, and many handsome private residences. Mink River runs through the town, navigable for small boats after heavy rains.
If she had trusted it to the Drumloch mail-bag and servant it would have reached Dalry on the twenty-ninth; and on that day Willie Johnson was in the post-village, and received several letters lying there for himself and others in Pittenloch.
They make pins and clocks and tools and machines there now; and it's 'the largest and most prosperous post-village of Litchfield County. But I don't care for the pins and machinery. It's got a lake alongside of it; and Still River don't that sound nice? runs through; and there are the great hills, big enough to put on the map, out beyond.
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