Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-01

ed the tender parts. he pressed them with AL ms
force. as if he we're kneading doush-]ust' aS nc
said, to settle The joints quite even
"The operator. having concluded his recon-
noitering, proceeded to real action. ne ufe"
parallel lines with chalk down Toms backbone
on each side the back bone: at particular Points
he made cross stroke, and at the fender paris
a double one; SO that Tom had complete iadaer
delineated on his back, as it the doctor 'nten!eu
that something should mount BY 1t IRON Ills waist
band to his cravat.
1.-The preiminaries being thus gone through,
and Mr. Butler furnished with couple OF leo
hot irons, such as manned horses are nreu "'""'
he began, in most deliberate aud skiii'ui man
ner, TO fire Tom according to the rules ana Prac'
t;ce of the ars peterinaria The poor fellows
believing, while under the actual cautery, all
the people said, they verify believed was the loud
est ever heard in that country since the massacre
of Mullymart This part Of the operations indeed,
was by no means specifically performed, as MI
Butler mended the lines and made all OF uni
form depth and color, much az the writing mas
ter meuds the letters and strokes In chlld's CO.
DIV book and as thev we're very straight anu re-
sular, and too we'll broilsd. to suffer any stfi-
sion of red blood, Toms back did not look much
worse for the tattooing. In truth, 1t my readers
recollect the excellent mode OF making cut
down each side of saddle Of mutton, just to ell
cit the brown gravy, they will have good idea
of the longitudinal caureries in question: On three
or four of the tender places before mentioned. Mr.
Butler drew his traverse cross bars, when quite
took of the uniform appearance and gave
a gars.isheGI look to the whole drawing, which
seemed very much to crafty the operator, who
again walked round and round the body several
L 80, hun al orfn
and here and there retouchng the ragged or un'
even parts. This flashing rendered the whip.
perrin rather hoarse. and his first rOars were now
changed to softer notes-somewhat as an opera
singer occasionally breaks into his falsettc
81. How'd Your BROTHER said Mr.. Butler. to
whom Toms incessant shrieking had become
very disagreeable /; 'howld your music, say, or
Iii put touch on your moose as tight as yourself
did on Brown Jack, when was firing the ring
bone out of him: you're greater beast yourself
nor ever Brown Jack was
"Mr. Butler having partly siIenced the whip
perrin through fear of the touch, the second part
of the process was undcrtaken--namey, depo
sitting what is termed by farriers the cold charge,
on the back Of Tom White. However, on this
occasion the regular practice was somewhat va
red, and the cold charge was nearly boiling Int
when placed upon the raw ladder on the whipper-
ms back. saw the torture boiled in large
iron ladle, and will mention the ingredients,
Just to show that they were rather more exciting
than our milk and water charges OF the present
day:-viz Burgundy pitch, black pitch, diacu-
lum, yellow wax, white wax, mustard, black
resin, white resin, sal ammonac, bruised hem
lock, camphor. Spanish flies, oil of origanum,
boiled up with spirits Of turpentine, onion juice,
and glass of whiskey; it was kept simmering
hll it became of proper conscience for appli-
cation, and was then laid on with a painters
brush, in the same way they calk pleasure boat
Four coats of the savoury substance did the far
rier successfully apply, each one as the former
began to cool. But, on the first application,
even the dread Of the touch could not restrain
Tom Whites vocileratiOn. Alter this had set
tied itself in the chinks, he seemed TO be quite
stupid, and tired of roaring, and lay completely
passive. or rather insensible, while Mr.. Butler
finished to his taste: dotting it over with short
lambs wool as thick as 1t would stick, and then
another coat Of the JUNCTION, with an addition OF
wool; so that, when completed BY several layers
of charge and lambs wool, TOMS back might
very well have been mistaken for saddle of
Sou,hdown before II was skinned. A thin ash
board was now neatly fitted TO it down Toms
spine, by the carpenter. and made fast with a
few short nails driven into the charge. Ibelieve
none of them touched the quick. as the charge
appeared above an inch and half thick, and it
was OILY at the blows Of the hammer that the pa
tent seemed to feel extra sensbity. Tom was
now united and helped to rise his woolly car.
case was bandagcd all round with long strip. OF
blanket, which being done, the operation was
declared to be completed, IN hess than three quar-
ters OF an hour.
s.The other servants now began to make mer-
~ with Tom. One asked him, how he liked
purgatorv7-another, if bed stop thievins,' af-
ter that judgment on him?--a third, wha' more
could Father Cahill do for hims Doctor Butler
sand but little: he assumed great gravity. and
directed that the whipper-in should sit up stiff
for seven days and nights. by which time the
juices pouid be dried on him; after that he might
lie down, If he could
"This indeed was a very useless permission,
as the patients tortures were now only in their
infancy. So soon as the charge got cold and
stuff in the inches and fancy figures upon his back
he nearly went mad; SO that for lew days they
were obliged to strap him with girths 10 the head
Of his bed to make him stay easy;' and some
times to gag him. that his roars might not disturb
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