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At Saybrook Junction, the conductors very kindly carried my bag for me and escorted me to the train to Hartford. Before we got to Deep River the engine broke down and we were there about an hour or more while all the men in the train got out to see, came back and got out with lugubrious restlessness. There were two fat little Italian laborers in the front of the car, who got the giggles in Italian, and a very very old lady in the rear who communicated shrilly with her slightly younger old lady relative in the front. The former was