The ballad of Reading gaol.

In vain;there is not a magistrate within ten miles; and custom, Lynch-law, and the coast-guard lieutenant, settle all matters in Aberalva town, and do so easily enough; for the petty crimes which fill our gaols are all unknown among those honest Vikings' sons; and any man who covets his neighbour's goods, instead of stealing them has only to go and borrow them, on condition, of course, of lending in his turn.

He always leaves his Home as if he were going to Court, and returns as if he were entring a Gaol.

Of course, I shall never mention his name, but I make one of my tools hang gaol over old Merton.

The town of Tregarrick (which possessed a gaol, a workhouse, and a lunatic asylum, and called itself the centre of the Duchy) stood three miles back from the lip of this happy valley, whither on summer evenings its burghers rambled to eat cream and junket at the Dairy Farm by the river bank, and afterwards sit to watch the fish rise, while the youngsters and maidens played hide-and-seek in the woods.

The fire will reach the gaol ere long, and the prisoners must of necessity be removed.

"I've seen two Dutch gaols," said the other; "and I have no use for them.

A chance notice of Gloucester shows us its two gaolsthe city gaol which the citizens were bound to watch, and the castle prison of the king.

Several chapels have been destroyed, and several inoffensive papists have been plundered, but the high sport was to burn the gaols.

The man is John Howard, who travelled tens of thousands of miles, and spent many years in visiting gaols all over England and the Continent, and in endeavouring to render prison life less degrading and brutalising.

It is a borough, and contains the county gaol.