



Produced by Al Haines.





                            *THE POST-GIRL*


                                   BY

                           *EDWARD C. BOOTH*



                                New York
                            GROSSET & DUNLAP
                               Publishers




                          Copyright, 1908, by
                            THE CENTURY Co.

                        _Published, June, 1908_




                            *THE POST-GIRL*



                              *CHAPTER I*


When summer comes Mrs. Gatheredge talks of repapering her parlor, and
Ginger gets him ready to sleep in the scullery at a night's notice, but
the letting of lodgings is not a staple industry in this quarter of
Yorkshire, and folks would fare ill on it who knew nothing of the art of
keeping a pig or growing their own potatoes in the bit of garden at the
back.

Visitors pass through, indeed, in large enough numbers