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Then, if he tried to escape, or refused to come with them, one of the 'bejuco' 'man-catchers' was swung with a practiced hand in his direction, and, caught in a hundred places by its cruel, thorny hooks, he was led to town, the journey in itself being a torture such as few men would think they could endure. The whipping came later.
We are not, in reality, what our Indian legislation would almost seem to accuse and convict us of, a nation of man-catchers, baiting our trap with fine farms, and free government, and happy homes, and abundant prosperity of all sorts, that so we may inveigle the simple minded, and then hand them over to the tender mercies of the Indians! God forbid that such crimes should be ours!
At the station he had refused to tell his name or residence. With a smile, the judge said: "Turn your kidnapper loose!" Escorted by the crestfallen Michael, he left, returning to the station for money and watch. The last words Oswald heard from this diplomatic representative of New York man-catchers were: "Indade yez in luck to have inflooenz! It was me own resarve that yez did not git the limits!
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