<h3>CARRIED THE POST-MATTER IN HIS HAT.</h3>
<p>It is to Abraham Lincoln is fastened the joke that as postmaster he
carried the mail in his hat. This was at New Salem, postmaster of
which he was appointed by President Jackson, as he was the best
qualified of any of the burgesses. Indeed, he often had to read
letters to their ignorant receivers, and habitually acted as town
clerk in reading out newspapers for the general good, on the stoop.
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