SECT. I. OF VERBAL EXERCISES.

5. Each Inmate shall be permitted to make Puns freely from eight

in the morning until ten at night, except during Service in the

Chapel and Grace before Meals.

6. At ten o’clock the gas will be turned off, and no further

Puns, Conundrums, or other play on words will be allowed to be

uttered, or to be uttered aloud.

9. Inmates who have lost their faculties and cannot any longer

make Puns shall be permitted to repeat such as may be selected

for them by the Chaplain out of the work of _Mr. Joseph Miller_.

10. Violent and unmanageable Punsters, who interrupt others when

engaged in conversation, with Puns or attempts at the same,

shall be deprived of their _Joseph Millers_, and, if necessary,

placed in solitary confinement.

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