In here was kept a kind of shop, which was supposed, according to an obsolete rule, to be open for custom for half a day twice a week.

The exigencies of the station did not allow of this regularity; but after some fashion the shop was maintained.

Tea was to be bought there, and sugar, tobacco, and pickles, jam, nails, boots, hats, flannel shirrs, and mole-skin trowsers.

Any body who came might buy, but the intention was to provide the station hands, who would otherwise have had to go or send thirty miles for the supply of their wants.

Very little money was taken here, generally none.