During the twenty-five years of their prison life the outside world had made many changes. There had been many wonderful inventions, and when released they were like school children on a playground. They hardly knew which way to turn. The outside world was all strange to them. Although being men whose years number into the fifties, they went about as children, laughed and cried alternately for joy, talked by telephone, rode in an electric car, and enjoyed themselves in many ways, while kind friends aided in clearing away the mists caused by twenty-five years of awful solitude. In order to better understand their appreciation of freedom we here quote their conversation upon entering the city. Cole Younger remarked to his brother: “I assure you that this is the best moment of my life. Just think of it! From now I can act just the same as any one else, but I suppose it will be hard for me to confine myself to the new rules that I find on the outside. I have been accustomed to going to bed early, and I expect I will want to keep early hours when I get out. You can not imagine how I felt to put on this brand-new suit of store clothes this morning. Only once before since we came to this prison, a quarter of a century ago, have I donned citizen’s attire, and that was when I put on the deputy warden’s suit and sat for a photograph. My clothes look a little odd to me; they are not quite in style with my regulation first-grade prison suit, but I suppose they go on the outside. Bless God and our loyal friends for this moment, which is one of supreme happiness. For the first time in many years I feel relieved. I feel now as if a great unbearable load of some kind has been lifted from my shoulders, and that this is the beginning of a new life. Boys, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your assistance.” Although these men were daring desperadoes when placed in prison, yet, notwithstanding the great reformation that has taken place in their lives during these years of solitude, we do not wonder that their actions were like those of children, when we take into consideration that they were both sentenced for life. We trust their future days may prove to prison officials and the world at large that the Younger Brothers are worthy of such a favor, and that their future career and this action of the Minnesota officials may be an impetus towards the liberation of every life prisoner, giving them a chance once more to delight in the freedom which men should enjoy.