The royal mail: its curiosities and romance (1885)
Hyde, James Wilson · Edinburgh, W. Blackwood and Sons · leaf 293
265 HOW LETTERS ARE LOST. and discovered tomtits inside ; and further investi¬ gation led to the discovery of the cheque lying twenty yards away on the turnpike road, whither it had evidently been carried for examination. The … Letter-box taken possession op session of the box for nest¬ by Tomtits . ing purposes, and perhaps they found the letter to be in the way, and ac¬ cordingly made an effort to remove it. In the spring of the previous year a pair of tomtits built
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