This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...constitution.--Management of Criminals, p. 18. The Lash. The incentive to industry and good conduct is the lash. This is the favourite and most frequent punishment. Where a master in England finds fault, the master in Australia threatens the lash; where the master here grows angry, the master there swears, and invokes ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...constitution.--Management of Criminals, p. 18. The Lash. The incentive to industry and good conduct is the lash. This is the favourite and most frequent punishment. Where a master in England finds fault, the master in Australia threatens the lash; where the master here grows angry, the master there swears, and invokes the lash; where here he talks of turning away, there he procures the infliction of the lash; for idleness, the lash; for carelessness, the lash; for insolence, the lash; for drunkenness, the lash; for disobedience, the lash; whenever there is reason, and wherever there is not reason, the lash. Ever on the master's tongue, and ever in the prisoner's ear, just as he himself urges his drowsy bullocks, sounds the lash! the lash! the lash!--Ibid., p. 22. The Lash. A little free licence, and next a hot word, or a hasty check, draw out expressions which the overseer considers insolent and insulting to his dignity: he let himself down, and now fears the consequence: angry words follow: the man is reported, and taken before a magistrate: authority must be supported; presumption lies always against the prisoner: the hideous triangle is displayed with its gory associations: the man is stripped and hung up: the scourger comes forth from the place in which he hides himself from the scorn of men; he deliberately displays his brawny strength, grasps his scourge, draws his clotted fingers through the tangles of its many knots, the nine detested thongs descend, and after a fiftieth repetition, each deliberate in preparation, and swift in its cutting stroke, he is taken down. And now he is disposed to be really insolent; he has been stung by the eye of every onlooker; he feels his degradation; he knows that a word, had it been listened to, might have explained ...
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