Sir, – As a teenager travelling home with my father, he always stopped at Cross Guns Bridge, Dublin, and shouted out the passenger window to the paper seller, "Full box Herald". On arriving home and finding the "box" not to be "full", he'd throw a fit, knowing well he'd got the "early edition" instead of the "latest edition". Fond memories. – Yours, etc,
RAY BARROR,
Hollywood,
Co Wicklow.
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Sir, – While purchasing an Evening Press outside Clerys on a 1960s Christmas Eve, I remarked to the vendor that the newspaper was very thin. "Waddya want, mister?" he glared. "The Book of Kells?" – Yours, etc,
PADRAIG J O’CONNOR,
Lower Dodder Road,
Rathfarnham, Dublin 14.