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Everyone goes to the Elementary Schools except the few people who tell them to go there. If I were to prophesy that two hundred years hence a grocer would have the right and habit of beating the grocer's assistant with a stick, or that shop girls might be flogged, as they already can be fined, many would regard it as rather a rash remark. It would be a rash remark.
One very cold day, he sent my brother out, naked and hungry, to find a yoke of steers; the boy returned without finding them, when his master flogged him, and sent him out again. A white lady, who lived near, gave him food, and advised him to try again; he did so, but, it seems, again without success. He piled up a heap of leaves, and laid himself down in them, and died there.
There was the average amount of flogging performed; cakes, nuts, and candy, confiscated; little boys on the back seats punched one another as little boys on the back seats always will do, and were flogged in consequence.
The fire was communicated to the dwelling of his employer and from there to many other buildings. The losses were great, a scapegoat was sought, and the merchant accused my grandfather. In vain he protested his innocence, but he was poor and unable to pay the great lawyers, so he was condemned to be flogged publicly and paraded through the streets of Manila.
"Of course I can," I said coolly; "but when one's between the Devil and Dartmoor, I prefer the Devil every time. I don't enjoy being cheated, but it's much more pleasant than being starved or flogged." She leaned forward, holding the edge of the table with her hands. "There's no need for either.
These fires were the result of carriers and others plundering, and one man, a policeman, caught with loot upon him, was forthwith hung from a tree. Several others were flogged, and after some hours' excitement the place quieted down.
Well, sir, you and I never had but this one little misunderstanding, and now that is explained, we shall part friends." "A glass of ale, Mr. Hawes?" "I must go and look after my chickens; the justices have ordered Gillies to be flogged. You will be there, I suppose, in half an hour." "Well, if my attendance is not absolutely necessary " "We will excuse you, sir, if not convenient."
'Dear tender soul, whimpered a woman; 'and I said to him only this morning, why don't you flog my boys, Master Hierax? how can you expect them to learn if they are not flogged? And he said, he never could abide the sight of a rod, it made his back tingle so. 'Which was plainly a prophecy! 'And proves him innocent; for how could he prophesy if he was not one of the holy ones?
"`I'm afraid my things have been very much neglected, he says, and then he asked, `What boots are those in a row? "`Some as I found in the closet, sir, all over mould. "`But they're not fit to wear, are they? "`Why not, sir? I says. `Look here, sir, that chap as you've had here ought to be flogged; I never see a gent's fit-out and accoutrements in such a state.
But then comes the inspection, and if he has not everything in perfect order he has a bad time of it, for he is thrown down on the ground, and beaten with sticks till he is sore all over. But if the lot of the cavalry soldier is hard, that of the infantry-man is harder. In the barracks he is flogged for every mistake or offence. Then war breaks out, and he has to march with his battalion to Syria.
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