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Stirn, as he waved and smacked a great cart-whip which he held in his hand, "making such a hullabaloo, you women, you! that I suspect the squire will be sending out to know if the village is on fire. Go home, will ye?
"But, I must confess, that there is something in that cart-whip which I do not like," observed Newton. "I grant it; but custom is not easily broken through; nor do we know any substitute. It is the badge of authority, and the noise of it is requisite to summon them to their labour.
The law expressly stipulates the quality and quantity of provisions. Inquest is held upon the bodies of slaves dying suddenly, or from any suspected violence. Use of the cart-whip prohibited; and no female to be punished except by order of the court. Only fifteen lashes allowed as a punishment to men for one offence, and in one day: two kinds of punishment never allowed for one offence.
As soon as we were clear of the yard, and Shock could be heard closing the gates and rattling up the bar, Ike gave his long cart-whip three tremendous cracks, and I expected to see "Basket" start off in a lumbering trot; but he paid not the slightest heed to the sharp reports, and it was evidently only a matter of habit, for Ike stuck the whip directly after in an iron loop close by where the horse's great well-filled nose-bag was strapped to the front-ladder, beneath which there was a sack fairly filled with good old hay.
On refusing he was scolded, then beaten, first gently, and afterwards with the smart application of the cart-whip; all to no purpose. The fellow, with an oath, threatened to drive over the dog he did so, and the faithful animal, in endeavouring to arrest the progress of the wheel by biting it, was crushed to pieces. Tame Hares.
She did not ask Placide to walk beside her horse; but she kept near that on which her mother rode, behind Denis, who held a cart-whip, which he was forbidden to crack an accomplishment which he had learned from the driver of the plantation. It soon became clear that Jean had made active use of the hours since he parted from Toussaint.
Stirn gave a loud crack of the cart-whip, by way of military honours, over the head of the vicegerent he had thus created, and strode off to pay a visit to two young unsuspecting pups, whose ears and tails he had graciously promised their proprietors to crop that evening.
This mysterious conversation was carried on with a human head, which peeped above the water, its arms supporting from beneath the growling cur such a visage as only worn-out poachers, or trampling drovers, or London chiffonniers carry; pear-shaped and retreating to a narrow peak above, while below, the bleared cheeks, and drooping lips, and peering purblind eyes, perplexed, hopeless, defiant, and yet sneaking, bespeak THEIR share in the 'inheritance of the kingdom of heaven. Savages without the resources of a savage slaves without the protection of a master to whom the cart-whip and the rice-swamp would be a change for the better for there, at least, is food and shelter.
It is just the reason that you shouldn't be here. I've a notion to cart-whip Jefferies for bringing you. You might have been shot by the miners." "So I might. But Jefferies wasn't asked anything about it, daddy. I told him he had to bring me here before morning, and if he killed the horses by hard driving, you'd pay for them." Dennis O'Day laughed. He liked her audacity. "But suppose I wouldn't?"
"Oh, he won't come for that, sir," growled the man addressed; but he made the long cart-whip he carried crack loudly three times in obedience to the order; and as the fresh party drew as near to the orchard as they cared to go, after all had given a furtive glance round for a way to escape, the low grumbling muttering grew louder; while as the animal moved right into sight so did those who were watching him, and Slegge and his companions saw Glyn and Singh approach.
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