d,--boots $5.00,
overcoat $6.50, and so on,--and returned home with him, where he cast
off his "filthy rags," took a warm bath, donned his new under-clothes
and came out feeling like a different man, though feeble. He took a bad
cold that day by being out in his thin apparel, and passed a hard night,
leading us to fear that he would have a fever. But his anxiety helped
him the next morning, when he set off, the railroad men giving him a
free pass, thus showing that humanity was not all dead in this region.

Soon another was released in a somewhat worse condition, as to clothing,
than the above, though with better health. His drawers had one leg
wholly minus, the other coming down nearly to the knee, what pretended
to remain being in tatters.

Two from western Maine were pardoned one evening and went away early the
next morning in the suit given by the warden, without my knowledge. The
severe weather must have caused them no little suffering, especially as
they must end their journey by a long walk through a deep snow, with
their brogans, and one of them was a sickly man.

Another, liberated without my knowledge, started on foot for Providence,
R. I., to follow the railroad track. Learning the fact in a few moments,
I hastened after him, but to no avail. I heard that his outfit was
similar to those above described. I should have clothed him comfortably
and furnished a pass by rail, had I overtaken him.

The warden now maintained that he had no concern with the men after
leaving prison, and usually took no pains to inform me of their
departure; hence, if I did not keep a close watch myself, more or less
would leave without my knowledge. My practice usually was to obtain a
list each month, from the deputy, of those who would leave during the
four following weeks.

The reader will see that I had a good opportunity of knowing the state
of the men's under-clothing, from those thus leaving; and further, I
would find more or less mending their clothes on the Sabbath. One day a
man was at work on his pants, which had become perfectly indecent to
wear. On a week day, finding a man in bed in his cell, I inquired if he
was sick, to which he replied, "No, I am having my pants mended."
Another man brought out the shoes he had been accustomed to wear in
prison. No, he could not do that; but they came out; how, I never knew,
and he brought them to me. It would be difficult to tell which most
abounded, holes or leather. I knew they