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fore took the eleven o'clock boat, in order to pass a 

 comfortable night and to be able to meet my engage- 

 ments the next day. That left the railway coupon 

 ticket from New Haven to New York on my hands. I 

 afterwards had no opportunity to use the ticket in the 

 direction in which it was marked always happening 

 thereafter to travel with through tickets from Boston 

 to New York. In returning to Boston from New York, 

 June 11, 1868, I applied at the office of the New York 

 and New Haven Railroad, in Twenty-seventh street, 

 New York, for a ticket to Boston via Springfield ;, the 

 ticket master refused to sell me one unless I would 

 wait three hours for the train, which left at three 

 o'clock, p. M., going through to Boston. He said he 

 would sell me a local ticket to Springfield, and I could 

 buy another from there to Boston. This would cost me 

 more than seven dollars to Boston, instead of six dol- 

 lars, the regular through fare, which of course I did not 

 want to pay. I told him expressly that I wished to 

 stop over at a way station one train to do some tele- 

 graphing, but without avail ; he would not sell the 

 ticket. As I could not wait three hours, I thought it 

 would be a good time to use my old coupon, as I was 

 accustomed to do upon other roads under similar cir- 

 cumstances. Accordingly I presented the coupon to 

 the guard stationed at the entrance to the cars. He 

 rudely and imperiously refused me admittance, stating 

 that the ticket was 'good for nothing.' Some warm 

 words passed between us, and he finally called the con- 

 ductor, who stood near. The conductor was, if possible, 

 more imperious than the guard. He said the ticket 

 was ' good for nothing,' and peremptorily ordered me 

 not to go on board the cars. I told him I thought the 



