He certainly enjoyed his life as a postman. He says:—

O, the postman’s life is as happy a life

As any one’s, I trow;

Wand’ring away where dragon-flies play,

And brooks sing soft and low;

And watching the lark as he soars on high,

To carol in yonder cloud,

“He sings in his labours, and why not I?”

The postman sings aloud.