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Lockstep, handcuffs, ankle-ball-and-chain, / Dulltoil and dreary food and drink; / Small cell, cold cell, narrow bed and hard; / High wall, thick wall, window iron-barred; / Stone-paved, stone-pent little prison yard -- / Young hearts weary of monotony and pain, / Young hearts weary of reiterant refrain: / "They say -- they do -- what will people think?"
At the two front windows of their rather crowded little parlor sat Miss Rebecca and Miss Josie Foote, Miss Sallie being out on a foraging expedition -- marketing, as it were, among their neighbors to collect fresh food for thought.