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"Then tell the truth, Joe, an' take the hidin'; it'll soon be over just a couple of cuts with the cane and it'll be all over." "Oh, no, it won't. He won't never trust me any more. I've never been caned in that school yet, Will, and if I am I'll never go again. Oh! why will you run away from home, Will, and play the wag, and steal, and get us all into such trouble?
'I can't meet mother I've been caned, and and I've disgraced my button! Here his tears burst out afresh.
Phil, who knew his brother's face well, saw, as he passed down the room, how miserable he was too miserable to cry; and Phil pulled him by the sleeve, and whispered that being caned was nothing to mind only a stroke or two across the shoulders. Hugh shook his head, as much as to say, "It is not that." No it was not the pain.
"I gave Greyson some mint-chocolate to let me toss whether I caned or him, and I won. He was rather decent over it and let me have half the chocolate back."
Here I will interrupt my narrative, for a moment, to relate an adventure which happened between me and this Captain Manget, three years after he had thus betrayed me that is to say, in 1749, at Warsaw. I there met him by chance, and it is not difficult to imagine what was the salutation he received. I caned him; he took this ill, and challenged me to fight with pistols.
He should undoubtedly have caned the banker, in preference to going to his house as a guest and revenging his friend upon the gentle and amiable woman who could not be held responsible for her husband's business transgressions. Unfortunate remarks seemed to have a habit of bursting from Borrow's lips.
I was well enough taught, not caned enough for my deserts, though more than sufficed for my feelings, and sufficiently fed, but at the end of two years I had to leave owing to ill health.
This was due not so much because I did not deserve it, as that I was fortunate enough to escape detection. To appreciate the above remark the reader must realise the trivial offences for which a poor boy is caned, and in the light of this reflection he will wonder that any sailor boy should be a stranger to the cane during his training.
Chairs, rare in the early part of the century, were not scarce by 1686, for they are mentioned as caned, of leather, or covered either with serge or turkey-work, as were several couches. The beds were of the usual two types the bedstead with feather-bedding, bolster and pillows being the more elegant, while the less important folks were assigned flock beds.
These rumors grew so annoying, that he issued a proclamation offering a prize "To the Author of the Most Elegant, Refined, and Ingenious Lie or Calumny" about him. The trouble culminated when Houston, having gone to Washington to plead for his friends, the Indians, caned a member of Congress who had slandered him on the floor of the House.
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