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Floating Christmas Present (short)
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Believe it or not. Count Nestle Road was foreign minister of Russia for 40 years. Yet he never learned to speak Russian. Believe it or not. In a moment, I'll tell you about a floating Christmas present.
In December 1940, Mrs. A.E. Gadsby of Niagara Falls, Canada, mailed a Christmas parcel to her daughter in Presswick, Scotland. The ship carrying the mails was torpedoed off the west coast of Ireland, but a favorable tide floated the package and unerringly casted ashore on the beach of pressed week.
The contents were soaked but perfectly usable. The address was still legible and the package was delivered two days after Christmas. They leave it or not.
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