paratus.

"Confound it!" Godfrey muttered. "I have been expecting this ever since
I saw the first gang of convicts, but I hoped they did not do it to us."

It was of course useless to remonstrate. His hair, which had grown to a
great length since he left St. Petersburg, was first cut short; then the
barber lathered his head and set to work with a razor. Godfrey wondered
what his particular style of hair was going to be. He had noticed that
all the convicts were partially shaved. Some were left bare from the
centre of the head down one side; others had the front half of the head
shaved, while the hair at the back was left; some had only a ridge of
hair running along the top of the head, either from the forehead to the
nape of the neck or from one ear to the other.

"He is shaving me like a monk," he said to himself as the work
proceeded. "Well, I think that is the best after all, for with a cap on
it won't show."

When the barber had done he stepped back and surveyed Godfrey with an
air of satisfaction; while the jailer, as he wrote down the particulars
in a note-book, grinned. Godfrey passed his hand over his head and found
that, as he supposed, he had been shaved half-way down to the ears; but
in the middle of this bald place the barber had left a patch of hair
about the size of half-a-crown which stood up perfectly erect. He burst
into a shout of laughter, in which the other two men joined. The jailer
patted him approvingly on the shoulder. "Bravo, young fellow!" he said,
pleased at seeing how lightly Godfrey took it, for many of the exiles
who had stood bravely the loss of their liberty were completely broken
down by the loss of a portion of their hair, which branded them wherever
they went as convicts.

Godfrey was then taken out into a large court-yard and out through a
gate into another inclosure. This had evidently been added but a very
short time to the precincts of the prison. It was of considerable size,
being four or five acres in extent, and was surrounded on three sides by
a palisade some fourteen feet in height, of newly-sawn timber. The wall
of the prison formed the fourth side of the square. In each corner of
the inclosure was placed a clump of six little wooden huts. Two low
fences ran across the inclosure at right angles to each other, dividing
the space into four equal squares. Where the fences crossed each other
there was an inclosure a few yards across, and in this were two
sentry-boxes with so