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Show WALKED THOUSANDS OF MILK. C.itance Traveed by Man Long in British Mall Service. There must be few, oven among "men of letters," who, like Joseph Hunt, a Lincolnshire (Eng.) postman, can claim to have tramped a distance or, roughly, 210,000 miles, not much less than the equivalent or ten Jour-noys Jour-noys around the earth. Not long ago Gtoige Thompson retired from 'service 'ser-vice as postman In the Langrlck district dis-trict of Yorkshire, after covering on foot 125,000 miles In 26 years of letter currying, a service 14 years shorter tVn that of bis Lincolnshire rival. In 31 years Orme M. Brown .walked 1' 1,000 miles as a .postman between Cupar and Kllmany and Logle a distance, dis-tance, as was stated ,at the appropriate appropri-ate presentation to- htm of an easy chair, nearly equal to half that which separates tho moon from the earth. John Slmmonds of Henley-on-Thames retired with a record of 181,000 miles pf fair "heel and toe," the result of 40 years tramping; while most amazing amaz-ing of all, Thomas Phlpps, a postman In the Chipping Norton district, was credited with an aggregate Journey of 4401000 miles between the years 1840 and 1898. |