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Updated: May 31, 2025
"I wonder if you know what a black-snake whip is, or a cattle-adder? Well, they're both painful and convincing. As director of morals in the camp I have just left behind me, it was my official duty on frequent occasions to see to it that current offenders had from fifteen to fifty applications of the black-snake in a public sort of way.
The offender, on conviction, was strung up by the thumbs and used as a target by amateurs who desired to become proficient in the use of the cattle-adder. Murderers were attended to a trifle more expeditiously. They were strung up by the neck." "Good God, man, do you mean to say you hung men in that off-hand fashion?" cried Captain Trigger, aghast. "Not without a fair trial, sir.
The black-snake, I may explain, could be wielded by a strong but unskilled arm. It was different, however, with the cattle-adder.
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