Not knowing whence the sound came, I rose, and presently found the poor boy tied up to a post, his toes scarcely touching the ground, and a negro whipper.

Had the gentlemanly woman-whipper been seen beating his horse, or his ox, in the manner he beat my poor sister, and that too for no fault which the law could recognize as an offence, he would have been complained of most likely; but as it was, she was but a "slave girl,"with whom the slave law allowed her master to do what he pleased.

"That is MacDougall with the lashofficial whipper and caretaker of the slave hounds," explained Obadiah in a whisper.

They had a nigger whipper, too.