The War Cry (1907) (14578871799)

Identifier: war-cry-1907-Oct-12 (find matches)
Title: The War Cry
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Turn around ! Lift botharms ! Lift right leg ! Nowleft ! Hold up sole of foot !Now the other \ Now stoop ■Stand up ! Open your mouth ! All this in order to prevent the pos-sibility of concealing anything likely.to assist A Prisoner Bent on Escape. When Tom bad been examined bythe doctor, measured and weighedby an assistant, a card with a num-ber on it was given him, and he was quarry gang, the gardening gang, theartisan gang, the shoemakers gang,the tailors gang, and so on. There was one ceremony connectedwith this parading which alwaysroused the devil in Tom — rubbingdown it is called. Each man is madeto unbutton his jacket, waistcoat,his slop, hold his cap in one hand,and liis handkerchief in the other,whilst a warder rubs him down, One day Torn and a number ofothers had jnst reached the yard forexercise when The Tramp of Many Feet was Heard.The warders order to stand in lineagainst the wall had just been obey-ed when the cause of the sudden haltwas explained. On they came, gang
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On they came, gang after gang, from their task in the quarries to their gloomy cells. were off to the railway station, and alittle later made the discovery thatPortland was their destination.. OS their arrival each . man was re-lieved, of his hand-cuffs, and told tosit on a bench in the passage. Thencame two principal warders, a doc-tor and a clerk. Under what name were you inlast ? asked a warder of a manwhom he thought he recognised as anold acquaintance. . This question called forth a laughall round—a sound strangely out ofkeeping with the place and the oc-casion. When the rules had -beenread to the meii, also the bill of farefor each day, they were removed totheir cells and another batch tooktheir place. Presently, the . door of Toms cellwas thrown open, and he was order-ed to strip and descend a: flight ofstone: steps to the baths. From thebaths he came forth in answer to a given to understand that numberwould be his name. At Portland, as at Dartmoor, theprisoners were warded a

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