calaboose

{{RQ:Twain Mississippi|chapter=56|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/245/245-h/245-h.htm|text=The slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or 'calaboose') which once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, 'Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?'}}