could do was to send for a cab and get her away.
Mrs. C. Limey said that she had occasion to go to the house on business, and the defendant showed her the complainant lying stripped upon the carpet. She got up on hearing a woman's voice and ran into the street. There were several weals upon her body, and her clothes had evidently been torn from her with violence.
The prisoner was remanded in custody for a week.
Extract from 'The Revelations of Birchington Grange.'
Asking for a good birch rod, the Colonel says he will show them the way a real expert would use it, whisking the birch about so that the trembling victim can hear it hissing through the air.
The Colonel continues: 'Now the real art of birching consists, of course, in inflicting the greatest amount of humiliation and suffering, but without in reality doing serious damage; we have to consider how so to apply the rod as to effect some radical moral good in the disposition and mind of
