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THE POST OFFICE
Gaffer
It would be splendid, and if you're with me, I shall have my full share. But what'U you ask?
Amal
I shall say, "Make me your postman, that I may go about lantern in hand, delivering your letters from door to door. Don't let me stay at home all day!
Gaffer
What is there to be sad for, my child, even were you to stay at home?
Amal
It isn't sad. When they shut me in here first I felt the day was so long. Since the King's Post Office I like it more and more being indoors, and as I think I shall get a letter one day, I feel quite happy and then I don't mind be-
