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Show A DOUBLE DOSE. The acoustic properties of the new Old Bailey are bv qo means as perfect aa thjv might lie, and there is a de-tded de-tded echo of the walls. Rome time-ago time-ago Julg Rentoul aenlenced a prisoner prison-er to six months' hard lahur. and I rectlv he had pronounced sentence "six months' hard labor' was echoed from the back of the court. The prisoner was so taken by surprise sur-prise that, turning to a warder by his side, he Inquired anxiously, "Do these "ere sentences run concurrently?" |