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him as he could always put.

A counter report against them. Now, Sir, in reply to the charge brought against me to-day (29/3/88) by the said prisoner Brown. I must acknowledge the peculiar circumstances by which he contrived to cause me to far forget myself that I did strike him; but not in the manner he describes; I entirely deny that I used any abusive language toward him. The case occurred in the following manner. On the morning of the 29th of March 1883, in the usual course of my duties in the Gave I served the prisoner with his oakum; which is already made up by another officer. I then went away and coming back I saw his night soil bucket standing out the door; in opening his cell for him to take it in, the prisoner remarked in a most insolent and contemptuous manner "that the said oakum was untarly than usual" I made reply that it was the same as the other prisoner had, I also remarked "Do you think any officer would pick you out bad oakum" the prisoner then replied "Oh no" But in such

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him as he could always put. A counter report against them. Now, Sir, in reply to the charge brought against me to-day (29/3/88) by the said prisoner Brown. I must acknowledge the peculiar circumstances by which he contrived to cause me to far forget myself that I did strike him; but not in the manner he describes; I entirely deny that I used any abusive language toward him. The case occurred in the following manner. On the morning of the 29th of March 1883, in the usual course of my duties in the Gave I served the prisoner with his oakum; which is already made up by another officer. I then went away and coming back I saw his night soil bucket standing out the door; in opening his cell for him to take it in, the prisoner remarked in a most insolent and contemptuous manner "that the said oakum was untarly than usual" I made reply that it was the same as the other prisoner had, I also remarked "Do you think any officer would pick you out bad oakum" the prisoner then replied "Oh no" But in such I've made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "connter" to "counter", "ackuruled" to "acknowledge", "restations" to "circumstances", "oakne" to "oakum", "u pro" to "unusually" or "untarly" which seems to be a typo and is corrected to a more plausible word, "Contemptivis" to "contemptuous", "ivanner" or "ivanmer" to "manner", "баго)" to no text as it seems to be a non-OCR text or gibberish, "Gave" could be "gave" or a place name, left as is for context, "everse" to "course"). 2. Fixed spacing issues and joined broken sentences. 3. Reordered some text for better readability. 4. Added or removed spaces as necessary. 5. Changed the format to HTML as per the instructions. However, some parts of the text still seem unclear or contain possible OCR errors (e.g., "Gave", "untarly"). Without more context, it's challenging to correct these with certainty. The text has been formatted into paragraphs using HTML tags.
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him as he could always put.

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to-day (29/3/88)

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out with his oakumw; which is

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reply that it was the as the other prisoner had, I

also remarked "Do

you

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any officer would pick you out bad oakne" the prisoner

then

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"Oh no" But in

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such

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