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THEATRE 



ROYAL 



Stockton -ON-TEES. 



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THE "BLIND LETTER" DEPARTMENT, LONDON P. O. 



A BOU' 

 XJL most 



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the 

 curious 

 feature of the 

 London post-office 

 is the "Blind-Letter" 

 Department. Only- 

 one clerk is em- 

 ployed in it and 

 sometimes his place 

 is a sinecure for a 

 day at a time, and 

 then again it is just 

 the reverse. H i s 

 specialty is a won- 

 derful knack in the 

 way of deciphering atrocious penmanship. That man can read anything 

 that iS done with a pen. All superscriptions are carried to him which the 

 mighty army of his fellow clerks cannot make out, and he spells them off 

 like print and sends them on their way. He keeps in a book, fac-similes of 



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