The Chap-book; semi-monthly . ut Elmira and Stafford Connelly con-tinued to stay in the dining-room. Indeed they were still there when, the story correctedand folded, Shenstone left the sitting-room and went up-stairs. As he passed the open door of the dining-roomhe saw them standing together in front of the fire,Elmira3 small, pointed foot and Stafford Connellyslarge, pointed foot, side by side on the fender. Thehand which was to have indited such great things restedabout Elmiras slim waist, and, as Shenstone passed heheard her say with the new note of decision in her voice, ** No, dear, fort
The Chap-book; semi-monthly . ut Elmira and Stafford Connelly con-tinued to stay in the dining-room. Indeed they were still there when, the story correctedand folded, Shenstone left the sitting-room and went up-stairs. As he passed the open door of the dining-roomhe saw them standing together in front of the fire,Elmira3 small, pointed foot and Stafford Connellyslarge, pointed foot, side by side on the fender. Thehand which was to have indited such great things restedabout Elmiras slim waist, and, as Shenstone passed heheard her say with the new note of decision in her voice, ** No, dear, forty dollars a month is a great deal tooexpensive for a six-room flat in that locality. Shenstone turned stealthily away and stole along thepassage and up the darkling staircase. He was thinking; 560 THE YOUNG PERSON and as Elmiras soft but decisive accents followed himupward, he murmured in an awed undertone to thedarkness: **I never quite realized before just what it meant —the Power of The Young Person. H. Geraldine inT/f j3Tn ALICE MORSE EARLE 561 CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OFBYGONE DAYSVIThe Whipping-Post JOHN TAYLOUR, the Water-Poet, wrote in1630:In London, and within a mile, 1 weenThere are jails or prisons full fifteenAnd sixty whipping-posts and stocks and cages. Church and city records throughout England showhow constantly these whipping-posts were made to per-form their share of legal and restrictive duties. In thereign of Henry VIII a famous Whipping Act had beenpassed by which all vagrants were to be whipped severelyat the cart-tail till the body became bloody by reasonof such whipping. This enactment remained in forcenearly through the reign of Elizabeth, when the whip-ping-post became the usual substitute for the cart, but theforce of the blows was not lightened. The poet Cowper has left in one of his letters anamusing accoimt of a sanguinary whipping which he vnt-nessed. The thief had stolen some ironwork at a fireat Olney in 1783, and had been tried, and sente
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