MD3PAD 190-192

[Toby G Levy]

        Chapter 19 begins on page 190 with Mason in a pub named "The
George" discussing Bradley. The President of the Royal Society
Macclesfield is remembered by those present as being one of the group
that spearheaded the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, resulting in
eleven days being dropped in 1752. Mason remembers his own father being
angry about the "loss" of the days.  Mason's scientific explanation
falls on deaf ears.

        In the pub Mr. Swivett and Mr. Hailstone complain about the loss
of the eleven days. They say that it was done in order to appease
scientists worldwide.

        Mason, still stunned by his rebuff at the hands of Bradley's
family, thinks back to conversations with Bradley about the loss of the
eleven days.

Toby