... F Miller, 167 Bright Side of Prison Life, by Samuel A Swiggett Sergeant E B Rocket, 189 The Bright Side of Prison Life CHAPTER I CHAPTER I PRELIMINARIES My first appearance in the United States ... at the crowd, ordered the gate guard to permit the passage of the outfit A broad grin of satisfaction spread over the faces of all as the large gate swung open, and the crowd of about 500 prisoners ... rumblings of thunder we could hear the low sough and moan of the wind in the trees outside of the stockade, like the suppressed wail of human beings in pain; then would come a flare of flickering...