PRACTICAL, ANECDOTAL, ETC. The wrong Address--Odd Names of Post-Offices--The Post-Office a Detector of Crime--Suing the British Government--Pursuit of a Letter Box--An "Extra" Customer--To my Grandmother--Improper Interference--The Dead Letter--Sharp Correspondence--The Irish Heart--My Wife's Sister 333 CHAPTER XXIII. Responsibility of Post Masters 348 CHAPTER XXIV. Official Courtesy, etc. 353 CHAPTER XXV. Importance of Accuracy 358 CHAPTER XXVI. Post Masters as Directories--Novel Applications--The Butter Business--A Thievish Family--"Clarinda" in a City--Decoying with Cheese--Post Master's Response--A Truant Husband--Woman's Instinct 360 CHAPTER XXVII. A Windfall for Gossipers--Suit for Slander--Profit and Loss--The Resuscitated Letter--Condemned Mail Bag--An Epistolary Rip Van Winkle 365 CHAPTER XXVIII. VALENTINES. Their Origin--Degeneration--Immoral Influence--Incitement to Dishonesty 368 CHAPTER XXIX. The Clairvoyant Discovery 375 CHAPTER XXX. Poetical and Humorous Addresses upon Letters 381 CHAPTER XXXI. Origin of the Mail Coach Service 390 CHAPTER XXXII. Evasion of the Post-Office Laws 392 CHAPTER XXXIII. Post-Office Paul Prys 394 CHAPTER XXXIV. Special Agents 397 CHAPTER XXXV. Route Agents 403 CHAPTER XXXVI. Decoy Letters 409 SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER. Practical Information--Post-Office Laws--Improved Letter Case 413 TEN YEARS AMONG THE MAIL BAGS. CHAPTER I No "Ear-Biters" employed--The Commission--A whole School robbed--Value of a "quarter"--Embargo on Trunks--Unjust Suspicion--The dying Mother--Fidelity of Post Masters--A venerable pair of Officials--President Pierce assists--A clue to the Robberies--The Quaker Coat--An insane Traveller--The Decoy Letters--Off the Road--The dancing Horse--The Decoy missing--An official Visit by night--Finding the marked Bills--The Confession--The Arrest.