Victorian Internet encryption

Gerald may look young, but he already has two years of experience delivering (and decoding) messages.

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Gerald: Here’s your telegram sir.

Country sheriff: You ain’t seen inside this envelope, have you now, sonny boy?

Gerald: No sir. Even if I could, sir, it’s all in code.

County sheriff: Now if you didn’t look inside the envelope, how’d you know it was encoded?

Gerald: Miss Harriet at the office, sir, she gets me to look up in the code book numbers she doesn’t know already like.

County sheriff: Jeeze, ain't no secrets round here.

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