From the tight binding of the cord the circulation of the blood in my arms and feet was almost entirely stopped.

If the night had been much longer I must have died in that confinement.
The next morning we were taken back to the Deacon's farm, and both flogged for going off, and set to work.

But there was some allowance made for me on account of my being young.

They said that they knew old Jack had persuaded me off, or I never would have gone.

And the Deacon's wife begged that I might be favored some, for that time, as Jack had influenced me, so as to bring up my old habits of running away that I had entirely given up..