Ben is still working for the newspaper, and a squadron of boys deliver for him. Ben is twenty years old. This chapter gives a vignette of the people who live and work in Altamont through conversations with people Ben works for and with and others who are having breakfast at a lunch room, including Dr. McGuire, a drunk; Horse Hines, the undertaker; Coker, a lung specialist; and young Dr. Jefferson Spaugh. Ben also describes several residences in the town, including that of the Presbyterian minister.
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