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Put Yourself in His Place

CHAPTER IV
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"It is the regular routine," said he.

"They begin civil; but if you don't obey, they turn it over to the scum." "Do you think my life is really in danger ?" "No, not yet; I never knew a man molested on one warning.

This is just to frighten you.

If you were to take no notice, you'd likely get another warning, or two, at most; and then they'd do you, as sure as a gun." "Do me ?" "Oh, that is the Hillsborough word.

It means to disable a man from work.
Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets, and fracture his skull with life-preservers; or break his arm, or cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call DOING him.


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