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break through nor steal there. Perhaps it is because of 

 the peculiarly moral atmosphere that the county jail is 

 located there. At any rate, even the man who was 

 hostler during the day and convict at night won our 

 kindly remembrance. 



Monday morning, bright and early, we started for 

 Hartford. Of course there are many things of interest 

 between Tolland and Hartford, but they belong to every 

 traveler, and we are only telling our own experience. 

 We asked at a hotel in Hartford if we could have our 

 horse cared for there, and were told we could by taking 

 him around to the stable ; so we "took him round." We 

 then took a walk, instead of stopping at the hotel as we 

 had intended. After our walk we thought we would call 

 on a friend visiting in the city, but it occurred to us that 

 we were hardly presentable, for our dusters were not 

 fresh, and we could not take them ofif, for then the 

 revolver would show, and we had no place to leave them 

 unless we "took them round" to the stable, too. This 

 matter settled, we wandered about again, and followed 

 some people into what we thought might be a church 

 service, to find ourselves at an art exhibition. Next we 

 spied a park, and strolling through we came to the new 

 capitol building, which we examined from top to bottom. 



Somebody we had met somewhere had suggested our 

 spending a night at New Britain, which was just enough 

 off the main route to New Haven to send us on a wrong 

 turn now and then. Our attention was held that after- 

 noon in turn by pretty scenery, chickens, wrong roads 

 and crows. The last-mentioned were having a regular 

 "drill." We saw in the distance a hill, black — as we 



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