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with a thin Bamboo, and then he struck her on the side of the face with his open hand and she fell down – when she was on the ground he kick’d her on the side of the belly, then she cried out Bawbree, Bawbree, and complain’d of a pain in her belly. She did not cry out on the blows with the stick, nor on the slap of the face. On the Girl’s crying out I seized him by his Cummerbund and ask’d him the reason of his striking the Girl.
The prisoner answd “now I have struck her you may go and complain to
your father