I want you to go to Merefield and see, first, Jenny, and then my father; and tell them quite plainly and simply that I've been in prison for a fortnight.

I want Jenny to know first, so that she can think of what to say to my father.

The thing I was sent to prison for was that I pleaded guilty to stealing a tin of salmon from a child called Mary Cooper.

You can see the account of the case in the County Gazette for last Saturday week, the twenty-seventh.

The thing I really did was to take the tin from somebody else I was traveling with.