Crossword-Solution: POSTALS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Peterkin, Agamemnon, and Solomon John took the postal-card to the post-office early one morning, and by the afternoon of that very day, and all the next day, and for many days, came streaming in answers on postals and on letters.

But it must have been read by their neighbors in their own town post-office before leaving; it must have been read along its way: for by each mail came piles of postals and letters from town after town, in answer to the question, and all in the same tone: “Yes, yes; publish the adventures of the Peterkin family.” “Publish them, of course.” And in time came the answer of the lady from Philadelphia:--“Yes, of course; publish them.” This is why they were published.

She reads everything, postals and all.” Miss Mary Emma Cahoon was the assistant at the post-office, and was possessed of a well-developed curiosity concerning other people's correspondence.

NAT'S NEW YEAR 'I don't expect to hear from Emil yet, and Nat writes regularly, but where is Dan? Only two or three postals since he went.

Coming across the postals, she pondered over them, and then put them carefully away in the drawer labelled 'Boys' Letters', saying to herself, as she bundled eleven requests for autographs into the waste-paper basket: 'It is quite time for another card, unless he is coming to tell his plans.