Show 1 why prison doorkeepers are surly why are the doorkeepers of prisons always surly I 1 guess it Is because they have to answer so many foolish questions said a prison doorkeeper only this morning a ring comes at the bell I 1 halt in the middle of my breakfast I 1 tramp down the long cor I 1 unlock my fifty ton door with my twenty pound key outside stands a tough young man his hat on the side of his head who says boss when joe mace get out me and another feller got a bet on it people come here and ask me when this prisoners trial and that prisoners trial takes place they come here without permits and demand to see a prisoner with the same air as go to a friends house and demand to see your friend they bring presents to prisoners boxes of cigars bottles of rum scarf pins and poker dice it Is the constant rebuffing of all these foolish persons that makes the doorkeeper of a prison surly palla delphia bulletin |