-
Posts
2 -
Joined
-
Last visited
About Me
MR. SADLER: To keep you at your work for such a length of time, and especially towards the termination of such a day’s labour as that, what means were taken to keep you awake and attentive?
WILLIAM: They strapped [beat] us at times, when we were not quite ready to be doffing the frame when it was full.
MR. SADLER: Were you frequently strapped?
WILLIAM: At times we were frequently strapped.
MR. SADLER: What was it made of?
WILLIAM: Of leather.
MR. SADLER: Were you occasionally very considerably hurt with the strap?
WILLIAM: Sometimes it hurt us very much, and sometimes they did not lay on so hard as they did at others.
MR. SADLER: Were the girls strapped in that sort of way?
WILLIAM: They did not strap what they called the grown-up women.
MR. SADLER: Were any of the female children strapped?
WILLIAM: Yes; they were strapped in the same way as the lesser boys.
