why, it is my opinion, that I shall
revenge myself upon society as soon as I am turned loose again." This
was said in a very cheerful, playful manner, as he stood up before his
loom. A more energetic expression, a keener grey eye, I never met with.
There was evidently great daring of soul in this man.

No 6--had only been confined six weeks; his offence was stealing pigs,
and his companion in the crime had been sent here with him. He declared
that he was innocent, and that he had been committed by false swearing.
There is no country in the world where there is so much perjury as in
the United States, if I am to believe the Americans themselves; but Mr
Wood told me that he was present at the trial, and that there was no
doubt of their guilt. This man was cheerful and contented; he was
working at the loom, and had already become skilful. All whom I had
seen up to the present had employment of some sort or other, and should
have passed over this man, as I had done some others, if it had not been
for the contrast between him and his companion.

No. 7--His companion or accomplice. In consequence of the little demand
for the penitentiary manufactures this man had no employment. The first
thing he told me was that he had nothing to do, and was very miserable.
He earnestly requested me to ask for employment for him. He cried
bitterly while he spoke, was quite unmanned and depressed, and
complained that he had not been permitted to hear from his wife and
children. The want of employment appeared to have completely prostrated
this man; although confined but six weeks, he had already lost the time,
and inquired of me the day of the week and the month.

No. 8--was at large. He had been appointed apothecary to the prison; of
course he was not strictly confined, and was in a comfortable room. He
was a shrewd man, and evidently well educated; he had been reduced to
beggary by his excesses, and being too proud to work, he had not been
too proud to commit forgery. I had a long conversation with him, and he
made some sensible remarks upon the treatment of prisoners, and the
importance of delegating the charge of prisoners to competent persons.
His remarks also upon American juries were very severe, and, as I
subsequently ascertained, but too true.

No. 9--a young woman about nineteen, confined for larceny; in other
respects a good character. She was very quiet and subdued, and said
that she infinitely preferred the solitu