| Show A lire package in the head bettor office Is it to be expected that an ordinary clerk without special remuneration shall expose himself to the dangers incident to the opening of the multitudinous and mysterious packages that are left as metaphorical foundlings upon the figurative doorstep of the postmaster general lest these perils be deemed imaginary it may be appropriate to refer to seventeen snakes that arrived together on one occasion in a parcel of the sort described although they were all very much alive especially a rattler eight feet in length and one of the biggest ever captured that rattled its nine rattles and showed its fangs to the unaffected dismay of the young gentleman who undid the bundle so great was his embarrassment that he failed at the moment to keep accurate count of the reptilian consignment and three aweeka later the entire office was set in a stir by the unexpected ap bearance pe arance from beneath his desk of a three foot adder speckled in yellow and black ow |
