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atheist he had become in high school.<br />

"How's it going, A.A.?"<br />

"All right."<br />

"Whatcha up to? Anything going on?"<br />

"Just gathering the news of the Dingley day."<br />

"Guess there's not much of it, is there?" The<br />

emigrant from Worcester, Massachusetts, snickered at<br />

the emigrant from Thermopylae, North Carolina. "What<br />

a hole this place is."<br />

"No, I guess there's not much." But as a matter of<br />

fact, Hayes guessed just the opposite, guessed that<br />

among Dingley Falls's few thousand human souls was all<br />

the news the world could bear. Of course, it was not<br />

news fit to print. That common news, the mutually<br />

agreed-upon mass communiqué of which the Dingley<br />

Day was the local medium, that news was now being<br />

copied off the wire service and slipped from<br />

syndications in the back room by Mr. Coleman Sniffell,<br />

who with Hayes himself comprised the entire staff of the<br />

town journal. That public news everyone in Dingley<br />

Falls already knew, since they saw it on television, quite<br />

often, mused Hayes, as it was happening. Ford Falls

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