cat-o'-ninetails

Updated: May 11, 2025

By heaven, sir, I say by Gog and Magog! if I had a son with fashionable aspirations, I'd have him triced up to the triangles and flogged with the 'cat' I say with the cat-o'-ninetails, sir, that is no I wouldn't, besides I never had a son she died, sir and good-by!" "Stay," said Barnabas, "pray tell me to whom I am indebted for so much good instruction."

Jeffery Farnol - The Amateur Gentleman