_Riddles for the Post Office._--The following ludicrous direction to a
letter was copied verbatim from the original and interesting document:
"too dad Tomas
hat the ole oke
otchut
I O Bary pade
Sur plees to let ole feather have this sefe."
The letter found the gentleman at "The Old Oak Orchard, Tenbury." I saw
another letter, where the writer, after a severe struggle to express
"Scotland," succeeded at length to his satisfaction, and wrote it thus,
"stockling." A third letter was sent by a woman to a son who had settled in
Tennessee, which the old lady had thus expressed with all phonetic
simplicity, "10 S C."