In addition to the medical scrutiny as to health, all candidates for service have to give satisfactory accounts in regard to their previous employment; and this is elicited by means of questions put to the candidate on what is known as the A. form.
The following are questions and answers in the case of a young lady candidate:—
Write your Christian and surname in full.
Elizabeth B——
Your usual signature?
Yours ever, Lizzie.
State how you have been employed since leaving school.
Ans. Music and singing, and nursing dear mamma, who is an invalid!
CHAPTER XXIII.
VARIOUS.
Superstition.
Superstition rarely stands in the way of the extension of postal accommodation or convenience; but a case of the kind occurred some time ago in the west of Ireland. Application was made for the erection of a wall letter-box, and authority had been granted for setting it up; but when arrangements came to be made for providing for the collection of letters, no one could be found to undertake the duty, in consequence of a general belief among the poorer people in the neighbourhood that, at that particular spot, "a ghost went out nightly on parade." The ghost was stated to be a large white turkey without a head.