New Way to Affix a Stamp — 344
“You remind me,” says I, “of a feller in Slickville, when the six-cent letter-stamps came in fashion. He licked the stamp so hard, he took all the gum off, and it wouldn’t stay on nohow he could fix it, so what does he do but put a pin through it, and writes on the letter, ‘Paid, if the darned thing will only stick.’”
—Sam Slick.