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Thread #104680 Message #2146379
Posted By: GUEST,Keith Murphy
11-Sep-07 - 10:18 AM
Thread Name: Isle of France - 6 years transportation?
Subject: Isle of France - 6 years transportation?
In Nic Jones' version of "The Isle of France", the singer has been sentenced to 7 years transportation but is sailing home when only 6 years are up and past, "going home to make up the last". How would it be that a convict would serve out the last year of a sentence of transportion at home?