 
 <prompt> text: ```As a small pikin, sometimes I dey travel the country roads with my papa. E be rural mill carrier, and on Saturdays e dey ask me to follow am. Driving through the countryside na always adventure: Animals dey to see, people to visit, and chocolate cookies if you sabi where to stop, and Papa sabi. 

For spring, Papa dey deliver boxes wey full with baby chickens, and when I be pikin e dey fun to stick your finger through one of the holes of the boxes make the baby birds dey peck your fingers. 

On Papa final day of work, e take am well into the evening to finish im rounds because at least one person from each family dey wait for their mailbox to thank am for im friendship and im years of service. "Two hundred and nineteen mailboxes on my route." e dey always talk, "and a story dey for every one." One woman no get mailbox, so Papa dey carry the mail go give am everyday because she nearly blind. Once e enter inside, e dey read her mail and help am pay her bills. 

Mailboxes sometimes dey use for things wey no be mail. One note wey dey inside one mailbox talk say. "Nat, carry these eggs go give Marian; she dey bake cake and she no get eggs." Mailboxes fit dey buried for snow, or broken, or dey lie for ground, but the mail dey always deliver. On cold days Papa fit see one of im customers dey wait for am with cup of hot chocolate. One young girl dey write letters but no get stamps, so she leave some buttons on top the envelope for the mailbox; Papa pay for the stamps. One businessman dey leave large amounts of cash for im mailbox make Papa carry go bank. One time, the amount reach $32,000. 

Twelve years ago, when I travel back to my hometown on the sad occasion of Papa death, the mailboxes along the way remind me of some of im stories. I think say I sabi all of them, but that no be the case. 

As I dey drive go house, I see two lamp poles, one for each side of the street. When my papa dey around, those poles dey support wooden boxes wey dey about four feet off the ground. One box dey painted green and the other dey red, and each get long narrow hole for the top with white lettering: SANTA CLAUS, NORTH POLE. For years pikin dey drop letters to Santa through those holes. 

I make turn for the corner and drive pass the post office and cross the railroad tracks go our house. Mama and I dey sit for the kitchen table when I hear footsteps. There, for the door, stand Frank Townsend, Papa postmaster and great friend for many years. So all of us sit down for the table and begin to yarn stories. 

At one point Frank look me with tears for im eyes. "Wetin we go do about the letters this Christmas?" e ask. 

"The letters?" 

'I guess you never know." 

"Know wetin?" 

"Remember, when you be pikin and you dey put your letters to Santa for those green and red boxes for Main Street? Na your papa dey answer all those letters every year." 

I just sit there with tears for my eyes. E no hard for me to imagine Papa dey sit for the old table for our basement dey read those letters and dey answer each one. I don speak with some of the people wey receive Christmas letters during their pikinhood, and them tell me how amazed them dey say Santa sabi so much about their homes and families. 

For me, just knowing that story about my papa na the gift of a lifetime.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. Wetin else mailboxes dey use for?
2. the writer travel city roads?
3. e dey boring?
4. who e dey travel with?
5. wetin be the day of the week wey e dey go with im papa?
6. wetin be the season wey the papa dey carry chicks?
7. how many mailboxes dey for im route?
8. how many stories?
9. how the woman wey no get box dey collect her mail?
10. wetin else e dey do?
11. Who need the eggs?
12. for wetin?
13. how much cash dey inside the box one time?
14. Wetin e dey get for cold days?
15. wetin be the color of the Christmas mailboxes?
16. Who be Frank?
17. im surname?
18. wetin the writer no know?
19. which letters?

Numbered answers:``` <response>: ```1. eggs
2. No
3. unknown
4. Papa
5. for Saturdays
6. Spring
7. 219
8. 219
9. carry am go give am
10. read mail, pay bills
11. Marian
12. dey bake cake
13. reach 8 32,000
14. cup of hot chocolate.
15. green and red
16. Papa postmaster and great friend
17. Frank Townsend
18. papa dey answer all di letters every year
19. letters to Santa``` 