This, however, was not sufficient to please the old gentleman.

Everybody, in the south, wants the privilege of whipping somebody else.

Uncle Isaac shared the common passion of his country, and, therefore, seldom found any means of keeping his disciples in order short of flogging.

"Say everything I say;" and bang would come the switch on some poor boy's undevotional head.

_"What you looking at there"-- "Stop that pushing"_--and down again would come the lash.{56} The whip is all in all.