"Sam Stubener ran through his mail carelessly a and rapidly. As became a manager of prize-fighters he was accustomed to a various and bizarre correspondence. Every crank sport near sport and reformer seemed to have ideas to impart to him. From dire threats against his life to milder threats such as pushing in the front of his face from rabbit-foot fetishes to lucky horse-shoes from dinky jerkwater bids to the quarter-of-a-million-ffdollar offers of irresponsible nobodies he knew the whole run of the surprise portion of his mail. In his time having received a razor-strop made from the skin of a lynched negro and a finger withered and sun-dried cut from the body of a white man found in Death Valley he was of the opinion that never again would the postman bring him anything that could startle him. But this morning he opened a letter that he read a second time put away in his pocket and took out for a third reading. It was postmarked fffrom some unheard-of post-office in Siskiyou County and it ran."