The subtle humorist who drew up the diet scale had appended a note that "all meats were to be weighed without bone." A good tale hangs by that bacon and beans.

While I was awaiting the second trial in Newgate, and providing my own food, I studied the diet scale which hangs up in each cell, and was fascinated by this extravagant quantity of pork, which seemed to evidence an unimagined display of prison hospitality.

One of the officers to whom I mentioned the matter said, "Ah, Mr.Foote, I wish you would show that diet up when you get out.

Untried prisoners have the same fare as condemned criminals, only they get less of it.

There are lusty chaps come in here, some of them quite innocent, who could eat twice as much, and look round for the man that cooked it.