"I'm doing my best to please you," he said, "so you must take it as it comes."
He gave him another lash and said, "There, does that please you?"
"No," exclaimed Jack.
"My G——," he said, "it seems you're hard to please, but you will have to take it as well as I can give it to you."
This Jack was a well-educated man, and a frightful rogue into the bargain; for if he got a man drunk he would pick his pocket and then take him to the lock-up afterwards.
The chief constable said to him one day, "Jack, the men tell me that you rob them."
"Well, sir, I might as well have the money as them; for they only kill themselves with drink and put the Government to more expense."
As soon as this man got free, he went home to his friends.
Old Major —— was hard on these "specials;" if they did the least thing it meant "50," and he would sing out to the flogger, "Tip it into him," and afterwards they were sent to a road party.