The Joyful Heart

how it makes history and geography live, and initiates one painlessly into the mysteries of the currency of all nations. Then what a tonic it is for the memory! Only think of the implications o

etted, surcharged with all manner of initials, printed by mistake with the king standing on his head, or water-marked anything from a horn of plenty to the seven lean kine of Egypt.

y the ceaseless and passionate trading of duplicates, by rummaging in every available attic, by correspondence with a wide circle of foreign missionaries, and by delivering up my whole allowance, to the dealers, I had amassed a collection of several thousand varieties. Among these we

he thrills that used to course it on similar occasions in boyhood. These were the days when my stamps had formed for me mental pictures-more or less accurate-of each country from Angola to Zululand, its history, cl

lamour. I prefer those of foreign dealers because their English has the quaint, other-world atmosphere of what they dealt in.

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-prices. They are rests of larger collections containing for the most, only older marks and not thrash possibly put together purposedly

the dealer inserts a number of testimo

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t by to-days post-office-ordres Mk. 100. Kindly please send

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my own loss merely for clearings sake of my retail business and in order to get rid of them as much and as soo

ng contemporaneously with sending in the depository am

elf into a society of collectors and to implore the altruistic dealer "kindly please" to se