Word: expressman
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Under the head of "Affiliated Tradesmen," attention is called to the statement regarding paying expressage on first presentation of bill, i. e., when the goods are delivered and charges named by the expressman, it being impossible for Messrs. Sawin & Co. to present a written bill at that time. Written bills, presented after the charge has been entered upon their books, are not subject to a discount. Those who have not received a copy of the regulations are requested to get one at the office...
...life as the Miscellany editors were. They wanted to lock the doors and stay a day, a week, a month, if necessary, until the guilty wretch should confess the crime; and they would have stayed, too, if some one hadn't come and said that the expressman had just brought a box of Whitman's candy to one of them; and then they thought they could discover the culprit by asking all the innocent ones to go to the board and tell them that it was not they; and then the Miscellany got mad because only the older girls went...
...over it, caught sight of me. He disappeared for a minute, and then two heads peeped over the pile. The train was at once slowed down, and one of my discoverers dragged me roughly and unceremoniously through the side door into the baggage-car, where the conductor, baggage-master, expressman, and a dummy were playing cards on an upturned trunk...
...over to Jersey City, and after much difficulty find the Cunard wharf. (Observe that the steamer's name is spelt "Russia.") Leave my baggage to be taken care of by an expressman; as we leave the dock I see him driving leisurely down on the wharf with my three trunks in his wagon. Pretend that it is of no consequence, and say nothing about...