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cooking, as my mistress was sitting in the open air she called me to her and ordered me to give some victuals to the prisoner: They had not ate togr that day. The Prisr was not present when she gave the order. I went & called him, and set victuals before him on a table in the Barrack. After he had eaten he went away.
My mistress came into the Barrack and asked me if I had, according to her order, given the prisoner something to eat. I said I had. She then sd she wanted to eat something