A WAY OUT.
Many Scottish villages, w6 hear,, have j no. police ■ stations. The same is truo of English hamlets. But gaols themselves may play many paTts. Years ago that at Corf 6 had been so long untenanted that the local ruler used it as a storehouse for his potatoes. Then a. maai was arrested,- i and'had to bo turned in with the potatoes. | Late at night all wandering Corfe was stumbling over n. mountain in the road — j the potatoes, which the prisoner had slung out of the window. H& was roleasod on condition that he collected and popped baoli between the bars of the cell the tubers which ho had disturbed.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1918, Page 11
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113A WAY OUT. Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1918, Page 11
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