Sentence:  Two or three times a week a sort of Italian "eil-wagen", a funereal and tumble-down, <WSD>flea-ridden</WSD> coach, with windows boarded up so high that, when seated, you cannot see out of them, and closed hermetically, after Italian fashion, shambles along at jog-trot pace between the two towns, and takes a livelong day, from early morning to late at night, to perform the journey. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Infested with fleas.