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to go backwards. This meant some improvement however: "Well its moving, anyway" said the little old lady. And in a few moments it began to creep forward. Not having quite reached Deep River, though, of course we stopped there, and they evidently had some difficulty in starting up again, which they did at last with another terrible lurch. Between Deep River and Chester we broke down twice, and at Chester we stopped again. After that we perked up and went ahead. But by that time we were very late. I never expected to make connections [[strikethrough]] into Springfield [[/strikethrough]] at Hartford and when we got there, they