A well-known writer visited a gaol to take notes for an article on prison life. On returning home he described what he had seen, and his description made a deep impression on the mind of his little daughter. A week later the writer and bis little girl were in a train which stopped at a station near a gloomy building. “ What place is that?” asked a passenger. “The county gaol,” another answered promptly. Whereupon Mary embarrassed her father and aroused the suspicion of the other passengers by asking in a loud, shrill voice: “Is that the gaol you .were in* father?”
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Evening Star, Issue 20538, 17 July 1930, Page 10
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101Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 20538, 17 July 1930, Page 10
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