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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 563, 26 March 1868, Page 2

“ Hakd Labou.”—The following story of colonial prison life is told by theDubbo Despatch : —ln a town not one thousand miles from liourke, Darling Diver, there is n building called by courtesy a lock-up. In it occasionally arc confined a few “ waifs, and strays 1 ’ whose conduct has been such as to call for the interference of the law. .1 short time since a man was sentenced by the local bench to seven days’ hard labor in this lock-tip. A person going past saw the poor fellow who got seven days, outside the building, “up to his eyes ” at hard labor. Ho was cooking a beef-steak, and if liberty means absence of police surveillance he was tolerably free, for not a living constable breathed within yards of him. Being naturally of an inquisitive turn of mind, the person who noticed the prisoner Jdeep in the Soyerian mysteries, asked him if he didn’t wish his week was 4 month, and he quickly received the following reply “ Send 1 may live if I don’t wish it was twelve months,”