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and Tom Curtis were let out after serving 

 three years, on account of good conduct, and 

 they all came to see me on their release. 

 Duckey and Boys subsequently left the neigh- 

 bourhood. 



The two Newmans never did any more 

 poaching, but became respectable and sober 

 men. As for Curtis, I've been to his house 

 many a time, and smoked a pipe with him as 

 if we had been two brothers. At Jones' re- 

 quest I went to his old master, F. Nash, Esq., 

 of Stortford, and asked Mr. Nash to try and 

 do something for him. He very kindly con- 

 sented to do so, and got Jones a situation as 

 tunman in the Stortford brewery, which post 

 he held to the day of his death. 



Jones always used to come over, or send me 

 a line of warning, when he heard that any 

 party was going to trouble me. He would 

 sometimes come over on a Sunday morning 

 and go to Chapel with me, stopping afterwards 

 to have a bit of dinner and smoke a pipe. If 

 I had any rabbits by me I would give him one 

 or two, and so we always parted good friends. 



