gag-and-bridle

Updated: May 6, 2025

Since the "tobacco trick", Mooney and Dawes had been placed in the new prison, together with a man named Bland, who had already twice failed to kill himself. When old Mooney, fresh from the torture of the gag-and-bridle, lamented his hard case, Bland proposed that the three should put in practice a scheme in which two at least must succeed.

Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke - For the Term of His Natural Life