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. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... It's in the office, I reckon. Go get it, Wash. Put! Colored gemman says he's in a hurry.--Come, that won't do. Hold still, or I'll give yer my club in yer wool." " Ho, Wash! Hold on. I've got one here in my pocket." " Give it him, then; an cut him up well, for makin such a d--d fuss about it aforehand." Then ...
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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. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... It's in the office, I reckon. Go get it, Wash. Put! Colored gemman says he's in a hurry.--Come, that won't do. Hold still, or I'll give yer my club in yer wool." " Ho, Wash! Hold on. I've got one here in my pocket." " Give it him, then; an cut him up well, for makin such a d--d fuss about it aforehand." Then were heard outcries like those of a person in violent pain, and the sound, strange to civilized ears, of the strokes of raw ox-hide falling on presently raw human flesh. The guard laughed. " Thar, go long off home! Yer won't cotch cold arter cuttin them capers, I'll warrant!--Hullo! he's gone the wrong way!--he's gone arter the doctor, arter all!" " Well, let him. He's 'arned it." " Does this happen often?" said Edward, hardly knowing how to trust his own ears after all that they had heard of the Arcadian happiness of slaves. " This is the third time since I have been here," said Herman quietly, wiping the perspiration from his forehead. Edward looked at his white, sharp features, whitened and sharpened perceptibly by the suppressed indignation and agony of even those few minutes, and was at no further loss to account for the change in his general appearance. There are some souls, uncomfortably, --we will not say unfortunately, --for themselves, so finely strung, so bound by a thousand delicate cords of sympathy with the great heart of Humanity, that, to them, to know of cruelty is to undergo it. Unfortunately for Humanity, they are few. " Now, dear Edward, do let me persuade you to go back." "Now, dear Herman, do let me persuade you that you mention such a thing to me at your peril." " It is most kind, most noble in you; but I shall never get over it, if you get into any trouble on my account." " Trust me to take the best care of myself and...
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