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the prisoner Herah went to the other prisoner’s house and complained to him that my son charged her with stealing some new slippers of his. I was near the door & heard her. Thereupon the prisoner Gopaul sd to her, go and complain agt him & get him punished, My when he said this he was lying on a cot; but my son who stood by me hearing this, said who will dare to confine me I owe no man anything, & used some abusive language to Gopaul. Then Gopaul came out & sd “Hold your tongue” how