Two others emerge from the station, large, hulking men, hats in place, flameproof coats on their backs, bearing flats of Poland Spring water on their shoulders tiny eight-ounce bottles of Poland Spring green label and I think any one of them could down the whole lot by himself but this is what they have, and for this, too, they are grateful.

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