You are too proud a miss for Alabama." He struck her a few blows.

Swinging thus by her arms, she succeeded in placing one of her feet against the body of the tree, and thus partly supported herself, and relieved in some degree the painful weight upon her wrists.

He threw down his whip--took a rail from the garden fence, ordered her feet to be tied together, and thrust the rail between them.
He then ordered one of the hands to sit upon it.

Her back at this time was bare, but the strings of the only garment which she wore passed over her shoulders and prevented the full force of the whip from acting on her flesh.

These he cut off with his pen-knife, and thus left her entirely naked.