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wisely sent for the usual aid, which was given with the usual 
concealing prolixity, and all went well that day. The Ameri¬ 
can now concluded that it would be well to spend his nights in 
a concealed nook of the engine house; and before long, as he ex¬ 
pected, the expert Englishman paid a visit to the engine of his 
unskilful fellow, and once more was called in the morning to 
remedy the work of the night. But the next nocturnal visit 
had another witness, and on the following morning, and there¬ 
after, two Yankee engineers ran the Boston and Lowell engines. 
With which incident, showing that the traits of human nature 
occasionally manifested in later days during labor troubles are 
new only as the conditions have changed, this note on early 
railroads ends. 
Ripon , Wis., October , 1898. 
