“Pat, you may bring in the stretcher and we will take him to the hospital.”
“I have been set to carrying the dead to the cemetery when they could not speak any more.”
“You are having some trouble with one of your prisoners here, I understand.”
“We are, doctor, and here he is.”
“He does not look like a sickly man, but, my dear sir, you can not always tell by looking at a man what strength he has.”
The prisoner interposed: “I am not a strong man, doctor, but I am strong enough to work if I were given work that I could do.”
“We have placed him in many places, and we have not been able to find out what he can do.”
“I am doing all that is required of me, am I not, at the last work you have given me to do?”
“You are, as far as I know, but you were sentenced here to hard labor. I must obey the orders of the courts.”
“What is the poor man here for? He talks as if he were a good sort of a fellow.”