text:  "Pat Ring after being kept in prison for three weeks apart from every friend and adviser and apart from every human creature save the spies with which every prison in Ireland abounds--(persons who are kept there at the public expense and who are put to sleep with such men as Pat Ring; and who pretending to make a confidant of the fresh prisoner tell tales of the assaults and murders which as a trap they profess to have been concerned in--they urging the new prisoner to confess all to split on his accomplices and take the reward of L100 at once --except such companions as these some of whom I saw produced as witnesses for the Crown at the Kilkenny assizes thus learning from their own mouths the nature of their diabolical employment)--excepting these to whom as Pat Ring declares he indignantly answered again and again that he had nothing to confess he saw no human being during his incarceration--was liberated and went joyfully home; but when he went there alas! his home was a ruin