CURIOUS PRISON INSCRIPTIONS.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 14

CURIOUS PRISON INSCRIPTIONS.

It is a_ favourite practice with prisoners•under trial to put inscriptions on thewalls of the ' "Waiting-room of Fate,' embodyinga conjecture as to their approaching doom. Nor are the memorials, of the condemned less touching, The following are taken from Michael Davitt's 'Diary of Prison Life ' : A burst in the city. Copped while boning the swag, 1869. "Roll on 1869. Cheer up, pals. Hook 7 years. Eoll on time. Poetry is, of course, a resource. There is ■ sentiment'in this — *•-» ... -„ Good-bye, -Lucy, dear,;. I'm parted from you for seven long years. Alp Jones. Philosophy in the reply — If Lucy dear is like most gals, She'll give few sighs or moans, But soon will find among your pals Another Alfred Jones. And shrewd practical information ia the-^ following — Millbank for thick shins and graft at the pump; Broadmoor for all laggs as go off their chump ; Brixton for good toke and cocoa with fat ; Dartmoor for bad grub, but plenty of chat ; Portsmouth a blooming bad place for hard work ; Chatham on Sunday gives four ounces of pork . Portland is worse than the lot for to joke in ; For fetching a lagging there is no place like "VVoking. CitUTCHY Quinn, 10 and tMcet.