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PAUL CLIFFORD.
CHAPTER VIII.
Common Sense.—What is the end of punishment, as regards the individual punished?
Custom.—To make him better!
Common Sense.—How do you punish young offenders who are (from their youth) peculiarly alive to example, and whom it is therefore more easy either to ruin or reform, than the matured?
Custom.—We send them to the House of Correction, to associate with the damnedest rascals in the country!
Dialogue between Common Sense and Custom.—
(Very scarce.)
As it was rather late in the day when Paul made his first entré at Bridewell, he passed that night in the "receiving-room." The next morning, as soon as he had been examined by the surgeon, and clothed in the customary uniform, he was ushered, according to his classification, among
