"And I hope he won't spare me the 'cat-o-nine-tails' if I don't do properly," said Robert.
Pity we left the cat-o-nine-tails out on the boat, said the second man.
As soon as ever I uncovered myself, they laid on to my back with a rope made into a cat-o-nine-tails.
He whipped us until we was blistered and then took a cat-o-nine-tails and busted the blisters.
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