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| 19 | 21 | View more quotes about occasionally">Occasionally, unexpectedly, I would be struck by a stone or a strap and hear a jeer or mocking cry. |
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| 19 | 18 | Hooded, it was further difficult to pick my way. |
| 19 | 19 | Particularly was I angered by the occasional large, flat blocks of stone placed across the streets, low enough to permit a wagon to pass over them, and separated by enough distance to allow the passage of a wagon's wheels, but surely a threat to a tethered fool, shackled and hooded, led on a chain behind a wagon. |
| 19 | 20 | The purpose of the blocks, which are used where the streets are curbed, is to provide stepping stones for crossing the street when there have been heavy rains. |
| 19 | 21 | Occasionally, unexpectedly, I would be struck by a stone or a strap and hear a jeer or mocking cry. |
| 19 | 22 | It was hot in the slave hood, of several layers of thick leather, stifling, locked under my chin and about my throat; further, this hood, like many, was so constructed as to ensure silence in a prisoner; I could not spit out the thick leather wad that was packed in my mouth nor, because of the straps that held it in place, dislodge it. |
| 19 | 23 | Another strap stung my legs, across the calves. |
| 19 | 24 | "Slave!" I heard. |