Pelborough Halt. He was also Chief of the Information Bureau. He was an aged man, who chewed tobacco and regarded all innovation as a direct challenge to Providence. For this reason he spoke of aeroplanes, incubators, mechanical creamers, motorcars, and vaccination with a deep growhng Ah !S uch intangible mysteries as wireless telegraphy he dismissed as the invention of the newspapers. Jonas knew most of the happenings which had occurred within twenty-five miles of Pelborough Halt during the past forty-seven years. He could tell you the hour and the day that Tom Rollins was run over by a hay-cart, and the number of eggs laid at Poolford Farm on a record day. He knew the Vicar sfamily skeleton, and would rattle the same on the slightest encouragement.
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