Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-06

pretty freely. Still ho was asman Who
would speak the truth and treated his
men as well as he dared TO do under tho
brutal regime ruling in Chatham, He
speedily told mo off TO barrow and
spade and was fully enlisted rs bar
row and spade man to her majesty.
A steam mill or "pug" like n monster
coffee mill wns used for mixing the clay
and sand and delivering IL in form Of
bricks below, where another party re-
ceived them and laid thom out to dry
preparatory TO burning Our duty was
"to keep the pug going"-keep 1t full
Of clay to The top. Tho clay was in q
high bank We dug into 1t from tho
bottom with our spades and filled it rs
fast us possible into our barrowg In
front II each man was run" formed
by limo u planks only eight inches in
width and all conyerging toward and
meeting near tho "pug. Tho distance
we were wheeling was from 80 to 40
yards, and the incline was really very
steep, but that in itsolf would not have
been so bad, hut tho labor Of digging
out tho clay was very severe, and that
everlasting pug" was as hungry as il
IL were in the habit of taking bitters to
give 1t an appetite
One had no period Of rest between tho
filling Of ones barrow and the start up
tho run. In an hours timo my poor
hands were covered with blood blistors,
and my left knee was lame duck in
deed, made so by the slight wrench Civ
en- it each time l struck in my spade
with my left foot, but made no COM
pluint About 10 o'clock tho man noxt
mo, with nn oath, threw down his spade
and vowed ho would do no moro work.
Putting on his vest and jacket, he walk
ed up to tho wnrder and quito MS n mat
tor OF course turned his back 20 him and
put both hands behind him. Tho warder
produced u pair of handouts and with
out any comment whatever hnndouffed
his hands in that position aud then told
him to stand with his back to tho work.
No one took tho slightest notice, and tho
toll did not slacken for an instant, but
ono man was ont Of the game. and wo
had 10 mako his sido good.
Noon cumo at last. We dropped our
spades, hastily slipped on our jackots
aud at once sot oil at quick march for
tho prison. naturally looked at the
various gangs plotting their way through !
the mud and all STORING in straight
limo for the Appian way, whoroon we
wore, for, rs all roads lead to Rome. so |
all the sticky ways "on tho works" led |
to the prison, Our laconic friend was
ON behind the party, and to
my surprise noticed that several Of the
other parties had un enfaut perdu hands
behind his back, marching in the rear,
and MS soon as we reached the prison
each poor sheep in the rear fell out quite
us matter Of course
When all thU mon were in, warder
came up and gavo the order: Fright
turn Forward" and Off the poor fell
lows magchcd TO tho punishment cells
for three days bread and water each
and no bed, unless ono dosignates an
oak plank rs such II was all yery sad
Twas pitiablo to SOC tho matter Of fact
way in which ovory ono concerned took
IL all
SO my first day in the mud and clay
'ame toan end, and found myself once
more IN my little box, with night bo.
Tore mo for rest and thought. Although
had suffered, yet there were grounds
'or gratitude and hope. and felt TINT
might regard tho future steadily and
without d'r1'ie
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