LOL!

Rog Peek, I am sorry if I seemed a little short about it. I didn't mean to be, just remembering old stuff. Never had heard the "Alferd" variation until this thread.:-)

Scoville, they had a rather chilling display at a museum in Central City back in the 70's. Don't know if they still do or not. It was in the cellar of the jail where there were small cells about 4 feet by 5 feet, carved out of dirt. No windows, no ventilation except what might come through the bars on the small doors of each cell. We hiked down the steps and tried to imagine what it must've been like. We didn't have to imagine too much. There in one lighted cell was an animated figure on hands and knees, dressed in prison stripes, rocking back and forth as though he was trying to climb through a hole he'd been carving in the dirt. If I remember rightly, there was a jail dog hanging onto his britches, dragging him back with each back and forth movement. It was meant to be humorous, but it just left me with a chilled feeling of how awful humans can be to one another. It wasn't like the "frontier justice" I'd grown up with where one was either hanged or shot.:-)