...and young LOTE'S bow ; Heigho ! I come and go, With a smile for each joy and a tear for each woe. O, the postman's is as blessed a life As any one's, I...tangled wood, Or dragging your limbs through a lawn — I If wading knee-deep through an angry flood, Or a plough'd field newly sown, — If sweating big...

...which our space will not allow us to quote. Then the note changes, and the poem ends thus : — Oh the postman's is as blessed a life As any one's I...bestow : If tearing your way through a tangled wood, Ordraggingyour limbs through ala wn; If wading knee deep through an angry flood, Or a ploughed field...

...joy and a tear for each woe ; Heigho ! Good Christian, 0, Then pity the Sabbathless postman, — do. 0, the postman's is as blessed a life As any one's,...the stile, o'er many a mile, Can blessedness bestow. i If tearing your way through a tangled wood, Or dragging your limbs through a lawn — If wading knee...

...and young LOVE'S bow ; Heigho! I come and go, With a smile for each joy and a tear for each woe. O, the postman's is as blessed a life As any one's, I trow, If leaping the stile, o'er many a mile, If tearing your way through a tangled wood, Or dragging your limbs through a lawn— If wading knee-deep...

...lives of mn-t eif the inhabitants. — Rfminuccitcea of a fast-Office Official. THE COUNTRY POSTMAN. 0 \ THE POSTMAN'S is as blessed a life As any one's...I trow, If leaping the stile' o'er many a mile Can blessednes* bestow. If tearing your way through a tangled wood, Or dragging your limbs through a lawn...

...a-day, Sunday included, for lew. dd. a-week, has described their life in the following poem : — " O ! the postman's is as blessed a life As any one's, I...tangled wood, Or dragging your limbs through a lawn ; [f wading knee-deep through an angry flood, Or a plough'd field newly sown, — " If sweating big...

...day, Sunday included, for 10*. (tt/. a week, has described their life in the following poem : — " 0 ! the postman's is as blessed a life As any one's,...the stile o'er many a mile Can blessedness bestow. Our Rural Postmen. 295 it on his daily journeyings about ten o'clock each morning, delivering with...

...and sixpence per week. These are his lines on the hardships of the letter carrier's life : — ' Oh, the Postman's is as blessed a life As any one's, I...limbs through a lawn ; If wading knee-deep through яп angry flood, Or a plough'd field newly sown; ' If sweating big drops 'neath a burning sun, Or...

...hawkwccds, and trefoils, and wild peas grow: Heigho ! Heigho ! As pleasant as May-time, and light as a roe. 0, the postman's is as blessed a life As any one's,...blessedness bestow. If tearing your way through a tangled wo Or dragging your limbs through a lawn If wading knee-deep through an angry flo Or a ploughed field...