"I suppose it is only right that we should eat our share of peas with the rest, for they can't get even bread and coffee as we can." "It is certainly wrong for you to take another prisoner's meat; and very mean, because, as you say, he has not the chance you have to get anything else. Now, girls, will you promise not to hide things away, and try to cheat me any more?" "I will, I will," was responded by the six. I did not expect them to do it without a great many more "admonishings." "Now, girls, be on your guard, so that the temptation does not become too strong for you." When the Deputy came in, I asked him whether the order for me to stand at the ration table in the kitchen, at meal time, had been approved by the Board. "Of course it has." "Has the order for me to be on duty in the prison at meal time, been approved by the Board?" "Certainly!" "You consider them a very intelligent body of men, do you not?" "Of course,--they are my superior officers." "How can they expect me to be in two different places at the same time?" "I really don't know much about the arrangements on the women's side at meal times. My station is in the men's prison at that time." "Yes, sir; and it is the place of our head officer to be stationed on this side, in the women's prison, at that time, and it is my place to be in the kitchen at meal time, to see that the meals go out properly, and that none of them are turned from the right channel." The next day afforded him an illustration of what I said. The dinner fell short. He entered the kitchen at one door as I went in at another. He came hurrying up to me, and asked--"Why is this?" "I don't know, sir! It was all right when I left the kitchen. Since that, I have no means of knowing what has been going on. I have been shut out in the prison, on duty." He ordered in bread to supply the deficiency. In that case it was the mismanagement of the hash, by a new hand, when "dished out," which would have been prevented had I been there to oversee it. VI. FIRST NIGHT ALONE IN PRISON. The four Matrons took the evening watch, alone in prison, in rotation. It was a rule that one of them was to be always there, when the prisoners were in. They were not to be left by themselves a moment. The one who had charge was to be alone; the other three were at liberty, one to go about the buildings or grounds, two to go out of the prison confines, if they liked. It was my turn to be alone in prison. Immediately after they had been locked into their cells, and the other Matrons had left, Haggerton began to complain of her coffee. "What is the matter with your coffee?" I asked. "It is cold," she replied. "I am sorry; but I can't help it now."