Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1890 — Stamps He Didn’t Have. [ARTICLE]

Stamps He Didn’t Have.

He was a stamp fiend, young and , precocious. The plain American stamp had no interest for him. He was making a collection of foreign ones, and so when they sent him down to the postoffice for a package he did not pay much attention, but brought it home and handed it over and skipped out to play tag. Next day they showed him a new sister who had aiqivqd. He looked at her with some curiosity. “Say, where did she come from?” “Oh, from heaven.” “From heaven! Was that the pack*‘age I brought from the postoffice yesterday, and I never knowed anything about it ?” “Yes.” “Golly! why didn’t you save me the stamps 2”—San Francisco Chronicle.