Ten Years Among The Mail Bags

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Excerpt from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags, 1855: Or Notes From the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department The author has endeavored to enforce these truths in the following pages, and he relies for the desired impres sion on the fact that they are not dry, abstract precepts which he presents, but portions of real life experiences the like of which may be the lot of any young man; temptations before which stronger men than he have fallen, and which he must flee from if he would success fully resist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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