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At any rate, being a lifer, and the penalty in California for battery by a lifer being death, I was so found guilty by a jury which could not ignore the asseverations of the guard Thurston and the rest of the prison hang-dogs that testified, and I was so sentenced by a judge who could not ignore the law as spread plainly on the statute book.
"So did I, at first; but had you seen as much as I have, you would think otherwise. But that reminds me I thought I saw women on board De Roberval's vessel when we hove to." "Your eyes deceived you not. There was a sprinkling of them on the deck miserable creatures, fitting mates for the hang-dogs who are to be the backbone of New France.
Men like these are the real backbone of our peasantry. They are not the agitators; it is the idle hang-dogs who form the disturbing element in the village. The settled agricultural labourer, of all others, has the least inducement to strike or leave his work. The longer he can stay in one place the better for him in many ways.
Whereupon two hang-dogs stepped forward, and cried with loud voices, `Behold us here, O wise and just one. The cadi put one aside, and questioned the other, who swore on the book, that the devil had given me a pig's skin, and had promised that as long as I served the followers of the Prophet out of the unclean vessel, he would enable me to carry as much as ten men.
They go to the scaffold with me. Did I live a hundred years to come those same scars in the end would go to the grave with me. Perhaps, dear citizen who permits and pays his hang-dogs to lace the jacket for you perhaps you are unacquainted with the jacket.
The man who is to be punished, or who is to be tortured for confession, is told to lie face-downward on the flat canvas. If he refuses, he is man-handled. After that he lays himself down with a will, which is the will of the hang-dogs, which is your will, dear citizen, who feeds and fees the hang-dogs for doing this thing for you. The man lies face-downward.
On the other hand, do not make the mistake of thinking that life in solitary was one wild orgy of blithe communion and exhilarating psychological research. We had much and terrible pain. Our guards were brutes your hang-dogs, citizen. Our surroundings were vile. Our food was filthy, monotonous, innutritious. Only men, by force of will, could live on so unbalanced a ration.
Whereupon two hang-dogs stepped forward, and cried with loud voices, 'Behold us here, O wise and just one. The cadi put one aside, and questioned the other, who swore on the book that the devil had given me a pig's skin and had promised that as long as I served the followers of the Prophet out of the unclean vessel, he would enable me to carry as much as ten men.
I, who am to be hanged this year, the nineteen-hundred-and-thirteenth after Christ, ask these questions of you who are assumably Christ's followers, of you whose hang-dogs are going to take me out and hide my face under a black cloth because they dare not look upon the horror they do to me while I yet live. And now back to the situation in the dungeons.
"You cowards, you hang-dogs, you scum of the sea, you dark-hearted blackguards take that! Aye, villains! and that!" Two pistol shots were heard. Harry jumped to open the door for Captain Mugford. Walter stood ready beside him with the gun.
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