was then ordered Classic Mature to get up, run
to the house, Classic Mature and bring a cat, which was soon produced. The cat, which was a large gray tom-cat, was Classic Mature then taken by the well-dressed gentleman, and placed upon the Classic Mature bare back of Classic Mature the prostrate black man, near the shoulder, and forcibly dragged by the tail down the back, and Classic Mature along the bare Classic Mature thighs of the sufferer. The cat sunk his nails into the flesh, and tore off Classic Mature pieces of the skin with his teeth. The man roared with the pain of this punishment, and would have rolled along the Classic Mature ground, had he not Classic Mature been held in his place by the force of four other slaves, each one of whom confined a hand or a foot. As soon as Classic Mature the cat was drawn from him, the man said he would tell who stole the Classic Mature hog, and confessed that he and several others, three of whom were then holding him, had stolen Classic Mature the ho - killed, dressed, and eaten it. Classic Mature in return for this confession, the overseer said he should have another touch of the cat, which was again drawn along his back, not as before, from the head downwards, but from below the hips to the head. Classic Mature the man was then permitted to rise, and each of those who had been named by him as a participator in stealing the hog, was compelled to lie down, and have the cat twice Classic Mature drawn along his back; first downwards,
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and then upwards. After the termination of Classic Mature this punishment, each of the sufferers was washed with salt water, by a black woman, and they were then all dismissed. This was the most excruciating punishment