The Edinburgh and London Royal Mail by John Frederick Herring, 1838.
One night in 1894, while on the mail route from Ramsgate to Dover, the driver of a mail cart was attacked by two armed men. According to the Leeds Times, he was “cut about the head and face” and t…
Source: An Intelligent Horse Delivers the Mail – Mimi Matthews
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That you can’t. It gives me as great a pleasure as reading about the derring-do of humans.
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