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Updated: May 13, 2025
Words, I am sensible, are no justification of blows, but they serve as the grand clew to discover the temper and the designs of the agents; they serve also to give us light in discerning the apprehensions and thoughts of those who are the objects of abuse. "You lobsters!" "You bloody-back!" "You coward!" "You dastard!" are but some of the expressions proved. What words more galling?
The question only produced a roar of laughter at his ignorance, during which the traveller turned to the publican and asked: "Who is this hind?" "'T is a new bond-servant o' Squire Meredith's, who I hearn is no smouch on horses. Folks think he's a bloody-back who 's took French leave."
"He ain't ready, but we is, cap," answered one of the little group about the prisoner. "Up with him, then!" ordered Bagby. "See-saw 's the word: down goes Mercer, up goes a bloody-back." At the command, half a dozen men pulled on a rope which had been passed over the bough of a tree, and the young subaltern was swung clear of the ground.
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