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In addition to the fifty letters for the house, the Fizzer had left two
others at the homestead to be called for--one being addressed to Victoria
Downs (over two hundred miles to our west), and the other to--
F. BROWN, Esq.,
IN CHARGE OF STUD BULLS GOING WEST
VIA NORTHERN TERRITORY.
The uninitiated may think that the first was sent out by mistake and that
the second was too vaguely addressed; but both letters went into the rack
to await delivery, for our faith in the wisdom of our Postal Department
was great; it makes no mistakes, and to it--in a land where everybody
knows everybody else, and all his business, and where it has taken
him--an address could never be too vague. The bush-folk love to say that
when it opened out its swag in the Territory it found red tape had been
forgotten, but having a surplus supply of common sense on hand, it
decided to use that in its place.
And so it would seem. "Down South" envelopes are laboriously addressed
with the names of stations and vias here and vias there; and throughout
the Territory men move hither and thither by compulsion or free-will
giving never a thought to an address; while the Department, knowing the
ways of its people, delivers its letters in spite of, not because of,
these addresses.
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