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Nell might cause him to be found out by Guffey; and that would be nearly as horrible as to be found out by Mac! Peter got his morning "Times," and found a whole page about the whipping of the Reds, portraying the job as a patriotic duty heroically performed; and that naturally cheered Peter up considerably.
She wants to be at it all day long, and all through the vacation." They perfectly flee from her. They say she is always whipping out a microscope and lecturing upon protoplasms and there is some truth in the accusation.
They were liberal of blows and of objurgations to the horses; but all their cries and whipping produced scarcely a tenth of the labor so silently performed by the invisible, noiseless slave that works the steam-engine.
Not choosing for the gratification of Lieutenant Deventer to indulge in weak complaints, he procured a huge top, which he employed himself in whipping several hours a day; while for intellectual employment he plunged once more into those classical, juridical, and theological studies which had always employed his leisure hours from childhood upwards.
"If you'll give me a good reason, perhaps I will; but I don't think it necessary to obey you without." "You are a thief." "Say that again," said Herbert, sternly, "and I will come ashore and give you a whipping." "You can't do it." "I can try." "Don't you know I can have you arrested for stealing my boat, you loafer?" "Who's been stealing your boat, you loafer?" "You have." "Are you sure of it?"
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Bob sprang forward, and seized the end of the long painter which was neatly coiled-up and stopped with a ropeyarn or two. Whipping open his knife he quickly severed the stops, and was just arranging the coil in his hand when Captain Staunton cried sharply "Heave with a will, Bob. There she goes!"
How many carters have been severely fined and imprisoned for whipping, and sometimes even maiming, the boys under their commands? And yet the old practice still continues, only a little checked by wholesome terror of the law.
His natural complexion being yellow and the callous places being nearly black, his back and shoulders remind you of a spotted animal." The following is some of the testimony given in court. "Dr. CONSTANT testified that he saw Mrs. Maxwell at the kitchen door, whipping the negro severely, without being particular whether she struck her in the face or not.
'Oh, he replied, 'those boys have been whipping the niggers; that is the way we bring slaves into subjection in Kentucky we let the children beat them. The boys returned again into the house, and again their shouting and stamping was heard, but ever and anon a scream of agony that would not be drowned, rose above the uproar; thus they continued till the sounds were lost in the distance."
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