The whiplash-knots, or rawhide, have sometimes by a reckless stroke reached round to the front of the body and cut through to the bowels.

First he hurled himself into the air, then pitched sharply down and landed on one stiffened forelegthe jar being followed by the deadly whiplash snap to the side as he slumped over.

"Stranger, no rough play!" Riley Sinclair whirled with whiplash suddenness and, chopping the edge of his hand downward, struck away the arm of Larsen, paralyzing the nerves with the same blow.

It made many an old scar of spur-gore and biting whiplash tingle; it was a background of pain which was like seasoning for the new delight of freedom.

"Whiplash win in the fi'th," he volunteered presently.

" From the coxswain's throat issued a machine-gun fusillade of whiplash words.

This Mr. Fish was the man who left camp some two weeks before in company with another and who carried the long whiplash wound about his body, in hope he could somewhere be able to trade it for bread.