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devils in A Colonial Tramp

YEAR
1891
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SOURCE
Internet Archive
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devils in A Colonial Tramp

all through the night, the hourly waking up as the warders march along the passages and shout, ' All's well.' What has been taken from him in exchange for this daily providing for the animal ? liberty — the being able to do and go where he likes; hope — the incentive to exertion; love— he must live…

Record ID
2,235
Year
1,891
Source
Internet Archive
Index status
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Record ID
2235
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
A Colonial Tramp; Hume Nisbet
Published
1891
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
devils
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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all through the night, the hourly waking up as the warders march along the passages and shout, ' All's well.' What has been taken from him in exchange for this daily providing for the animal ? liberty — the being able to do and go where he likes; hope — the incentive to exertion; love— he must live for ever mateless, with all his natural desires raging like devils within him. I have gone through a good many colonial prisons, and talked to all kinds of criminals, from the gentlemanly forger, swindler, and medical side-walker, down through the fine gradations of bushranger, housebreaker, pickpocket, and sneak kinchin man. Once I.

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