He threw up his hands wildly, and groaned, "Oh, Lord!" The hands instantly dropped their hoes.

The women shrieked aloud.

For my own part I stood silent with horror.

The cries of the women enraged the overseer, he dropped his gun, and snatching the whip from my hand, with horrid oaths, and imprecations fell to whipping them, laying about him like a maniac.

Upon Harry's sister he bestowed his blows without mercy, commanding her to quit her screaming and go to work.