I know pretty well, for I was for four years a prisoner in your English town of Dorchester.

That is how I came to speak your language.

It was a weary time of it; though we were not badly treated, not half so bad as I have heard that the men in some other prisons were.

So I owe you English no ill-will on that account, and from what I have heard some of our prisons are worse than any of yours.

I used to knit stockings and wraps for the neck.