The manner in which he permits our jail to be conducted always seemed to me interesting and original.
One day I wanted to hire a man to wheel half a dozen loads of rubbish out of my garden, and after looking around a while I found a seedy chap sitting on the end of a wharf fishing.

When I asked him if he would attend to the job, he replied thus: "I really can't.

I'm sorry; but the fact is I'm in jail for six months for larceny--sentenced last December.

I don't mind it much, only they don't act honest with me up at the jail.

The first week I was there Mrs.Murphy--she's the keeper's wife--wanted to clean up, and so she turned me out, and I had to hang round homeless for more'n a week.
Then, just as I was getting settled agin comfortably, the provisions ran short, and Murphy tried to borrow money of me to feed the convicts; and as I had none to lend, out I had to go agin.