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| 9 | 130 | If my View more quotes about hands">hands had not been tied a padlock would have been used. |
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| 9 | 127 | He laughed at me derisively and then, crouching beside me, threw my ankles into the stock and closed it, one of the two four-inch blocks of wood on each side of my ankles, and flung the hasp over the staple, which would hold the blocks shut. |
| 9 | 128 | Then, with a drilled peg and a bit of binding fiber, attached to the stock, he, slipping the fiber through the staple and securing it to the peg, fastened the hasp down. |
| 9 | 129 | This would hold a bound slave. |
| 9 | 130 | If my hands had not been tied a padlock would have been used. |
| 9 | 131 | Tied as I was I was the prisoner of the stock, its weight and constraint. |
| 9 | 132 | I lay on the ground, twisting, moaning. |
| 9 | 133 | It seemed my guts had been torn out. |