If the treadmill stop in consequence of the languid limbs and exhausted frames of the victims, within a minute the lash resounds through the buildingif the stones which they are set to break be not broken by limbs scarred, and marred, and whaled, they are summoned by the crack of the whip to their toilsome task!

But, after the first burst of tears, the feeling came over me that I was a man, and it was an outrage to treat me soto keep me under the lash day after day.

" She smiled with her lashes dewy.

The black streak curled around his head, and through the open window she heard the crack of the lash-end.

"Gone, gonesold and gone, To the rice-swamp, dank and lone; There no mother's eye is near them, There no mother's ear can hear them; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their backs with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them.

Coming along that last bit of road I heard something whistling every now an' then like the top note of a tin whistle, and something else goin' whisk like a cane switched past your ear, and another lot saying smack like a whip-lash snapping.

Yet when a child, and barefoot, I more than once, at morn, Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash Unbraiding in the sun, When, stooping to secure it, It wrinkled, and was gone.

And the long whip lash cracks and Jim shouts, "Get an, Dandy."

And then as he gazed down into the moonlit waves her last words came back with a fresh lashing sting.