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This question was considered at length, and publicly discussed at the sessions of the Surry magistrates, with the benefit of medical advice; which resulted in "large additions" to the rations of those who worked on the tread-mill. See London Morning Chronicle, Jan. 13, 1830. To the preceding we add the ration of the Roman slaves.
He saw faces about him for an instant shaggy wild Breton faces but they dropped away, he knew not where. The current kept driving him inshore. As in a dream, he could hear the breakers the pumas on their tread-mill of death. How long would it last? How long before he would be beaten upon that tread-mill fondled to death by those mad paws? Presently dreams came-kind, vague, distant dreams.
Colonel Colville, Governor of Colbath Fields Prison, one of the largest London prisons, spoke very strongly against the tread-mill system of punishment which is in nearly all the prisons of England, and almost unanimously condemned by the prison officials. The general opinion of the Congress was in conformity to views expressed by the speakers mentioned.
The same 'public opinion' which gave birth to the advertisement of doctor Stillman, and to those of the professors in both the medical institutions, founded the Charleston 'Work House' a soft name for a Moloch temple dedicated to torture, and reeking with blood, in the midst of the city; to which masters and mistresses send their slaves of both sexes to be stripped, tied up, and cut with the lash till the blood and mangled flesh flow to their feet, or to be beaten and bruised with the terrible paddle, or forced to climb the tread-mill till nature sinks, or to experience other nameless torments.
She sent another female slave there, to be imprisoned and worked on the tread-mill. This girl was confined several days, and forced to work the mill while in a state of suffering from another cause. For ten days or two weeks after her return, she was lame, from the violent exertion necessary to enable her to keep the step on the machine.
"Pull out this instant; pull out, I tell you, or you shall have three months' hard labor. May I be d d now my dear, I beg your pardon for speaking with such sincerity I simply mean, may I go straightway to the devil, if I don't put this fellow on the tread-mill. Oh, you can pull out now, then, can you?"
I was called an old bachelor before I was twenty, and as I grew older I considered myself one, irredeemably, for I never expected to marry." "I should have thought your life full of romance, wandering about, as you must have done." "My life has been a tread-mill," he answered. "But you see so many beautiful things in nature."
Peter Leather then tumbled regularly down the staircase of servitude, the greatness of his fall being occasionally broken by landing in some inferior place. From the Duke of Dazzleton's, or rather from the tread-mill, he went to the Marquis of Mammon, whom he very soon left because he wouldn't wear a second-hand wig.
Perhaps the window may be open. If so, we are saved. Will you hold the candle for a moment?" Have you ever witnessed a cat footing it across the snow? If you have, picture me imitating her. Cautiously I took one step, then another; and then that mountain of coal turned into a roaring tread-mill. Sssssh! Rrrrr! In a moment I was buried to the knees and nearly suffocated. I became angry.
And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement.
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