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Rh they were fairly outside of Boston, and, equally of course, he desired to patronize every trip of  the newsboy, and the vender of prize packages  of cough candy, each one of which was warranted to contain a rich jewel; but on these  small points Bess was firm, and he abandoned  himself to the alternate pleasures of gazing out  at the car window at the miles of back doors,  each filled with a family as much interested in  the train as if it were some rare and curious  object, and of inspecting his fellow-passengers, the usual assortment. Across from them was a young Japanese, who had intensified the  effect of his swarthy skin by mounting a white  felt hat. With him sat a man who was so drowsy that his head constantly dropped forward on the round silver knob that headed his cane, at the imminent risk of putting out his  eyes. The force of the blow never failed to waken him, and he straightened himself up with  a sheepishly defiant air, as if to refute any possible denial of his wakefulness. Behind him sat a spinster of sixty, with lank side curls and a fidgety manner of moving her satchel about. There was the usual number of commercial