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                            WOMAN IN PRISON.

                                   BY

                           CAROLINE H. WOODS.



                               NEW YORK:
                    PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.
                      Cambridge: Riverside Press.
                                 1869.


  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
                           CAROLINE H. WOODS,
  in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of
  Massachusetts.

                         RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
                       STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
                      H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.




                              WHY WRITTEN.


I was reading an evening paper. I glanced over the advertisements. One
attracted my attention, and held it so strongly that I read it over and
over, again and again. There was nothing unusual in it to ordinary
observation. It read, "Wanted.--At the Penitentiary, a Matron. Inquire
at the Institution."

I turned the paper over to read the general news; but could not place my
thoughts so as to comprehend the meaning of the words before my sight.
Without the intention to do so, I looked again at the advertisement. It
became a study to me.

Said Thought--If you were to answer that advertisement, and obtain the
situation, it would place you upon missionary ground, and at the same
time give you employment which would afford you a support while you are
teaching the ignorant. You would get knowledge