"Nine months."
"What's your sentence?"
"Seven years."
"Have you done your separates in the 'bank?"
"No; in the country—down in Somerset."
"What sort of treatment did you get?"
"Wretched! They are making it very hot now, and I got 'bashed' as well."
"The flogging has made your health bad, I suppose?"
"Yes, it made me spit up ever so much blood."
"Were you ever flogged before?"