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me one hundred dollars, two suits of clothes and would settle me - but he did not wish to have me bound. I worked on then some time and was put in charge of team, hauling out wood. The mules got out of the stables into the rice patch, he halloed out to me, and said if I did not get them out of the patch, he would whip me. I told him I could not help them getting out of the stables, as it was impossible to keep them in. He afterwards came around, and says to me, what is it you say you would do? He then struck me with a stick, and I told him that I would go to Genl Hawley, then said he would tie me. I asked him how could he do so, as I had done nothing - whereupon he crossed my hands and tied them behind my back, and carried me into a room. I pulled off my coat, and he made me sit in a chair, when he whipped me with a hoop pole, and then got a double strap about as wide as my two fingers and whipped me some considerable time with it, asking me if I was going to stay until I was twenty one and behave myself as I ought. I said I did not know I had misbehaved, when the whipping was repeated. He asked me the same questions again, and I answering the same way, for which I was whipped again. He asked me the same