Excerpt from A Voice From the Prison, or Truths for the Multitude, and Pearls for the TruthfulOf course, my education, thus limited, was not for authorship, though I was perplexed much on moods and tenses, verbs and adverbs, nouns and pronouns. My fund of book education mainly consisted in how many gills in a pint, pints in a quart, quarts in a gallon, gallons in a barrel, tierce, or pipe, how many ounces in a pound, quarter, cwt., or ton, how many farthings in a penny, pence in a shilling, mills in a cent, cents in a dime, dimes in a dollar, &c., My business was not calculated to add to my then limited fund of book education, though it learned me much of depraved human nature.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.