THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 119 
“Let us reflect for one little minute, 
if I can persuade the fair ones I ad¬ 
dress, to reflect for so unheard of a 
period. What is the letter-box but 
Pandora’s box, without even hope at 
the bottom ? Out of the thousands 
and thousands of the communications 
which are daily disseminated from the 
General Post Office, that great Aorta 
which pours forth its mischief by its 
ramifications, like the arteries and 
veins of the human body throughout 
the body politic —I say, only reflect 
a minute, and then tell me out of the 
thousands of written communications 
dispersed through this country by 
penny, two-penny, and general-post, 
