Show rn in lamppost letter boxed 16 ever find things in the boxes wa wea asked of a postoffice collector who jaaj was taking the letters from a lamppost letter box some but not such an everlasting lot either was waa the reply A thief fleeing from his pursuers once dropped a watch in a lamppost letter box so that it would not be found upon his hia person nor alon along the line of his flight but watches are not commonly found in in lamppost letter boxes once when I 1 came up to a letter box boa I 1 found standing by it a policeman and a woman the policeman said that the woman had bad dropped a dollar bill into the box between some letters and she wanted to get it back the rules of the postoffice post office require that anything that may bo be found in the boxes shall bo be turned in at the postoffice post office the loser must apply for it there if I 1 had bad found any money in this box I 1 should have been compelled to turn it in but there any money there the lady must have lost it or have left it somewhere else As a matter of fact not many things of value are dropped I 1 ito into lamppost letter boxes up town you find a dead mouse in a box occasionally but about all children put the mice in the box they find a dead mouse in the street and think its funny to put it in a lamppost letter box bos new york sum sim |