prisonyard

However, since two days we are actually allowed a half-hour's exercise in the prisonyard, where we walk up and down, picking our way as best we can through mud and negroes, followed by soldiers and corporals with bayonet in hand, ready to cry "halt!" if we turn to the right or the left.

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