A JUDGE having sentenced a Malefactor1 to the penitentiary2 was
proceeding3 to point out to him the disadvantages of crime and the
profit of reformation.
Your Honour, said the Malefactor, interrupting, would you be
kind enough to alter my punishment to ten years in the penitentiary
and nothing else?
Why, said the Judge, surprised, I have given you only three
years!
Yes, I know, assented4 the Malefactor - three years' imprisonment5
and the preaching. If you please, I should like to commute6 the
preaching.
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