so smooth-stretched
over the hard and firm pulp of flesh that filled it, as to yield no
play, or elusive swagging under the stroke: which thereby took place the
more plump, and cut into the quick.

I was however already so moved at the piteous sight, that I from my
heart repented the undertaking, and would willing had given over,
thinking he had full enough; but, he encouraging and beseeching me
earnestly to proceed, I gave him ten more lashes; and then resting,
surveyed the increase of bloody appearances. And at length, steeled to
the height, by his stoutness in suffering, I continued the discipline,
by intervals, till I observed him wreathing and twisting his body, in
a way that I could plainly perceive was not the effect of pain, but of
some new and powerful sensation: curious to dive into the meaning of
which, in one of my pauses of intermission, I approached, as he still
kept working, and grinding his belly against the cushion under him: and
first stroking the untouched and unhurt side of the flesh-mount next me,
then softly insinuating my hand under his thigh, felt the posture things
were in forwards, which was indeed surprising: for that machine of him,
which I had, by its appearance, taken for an impalpable, or at least a
very diminutive subject, was now, in virtue of all that smart and
havoc of his skin behind, grown not only to a prodigious stiffness of
erection, but to a size that frighted even me: a non-pareil thickness
indeed! the head of it alone filled the utmost capacity of my grasp.
And when, as he heaved and wriggled to and fro, in the agitation of his
strange pleasure, it came into view, it had something of the air of a
round fillet of veal, and like its owner, squab, and short in proportion
to its breadth; but when he felt my hand there, he begged I would go on
briskly with my jerking, or he should never arrive at the last stage of
pleasure.

Resuming then the rode and the exercise of it, I had fairly worn out
three bundles, when, after an increase of struggles and motion, and a
deep sigh or two, I saw him lie still and motionless; and now he desired
me to desist, which I instantly did; and proceeding to untie him, I
could not but be amazed at his passive fortitude, on viewing the skin of
his butchered, mangled posteriors, late so white, smooth and polished,
now all one side of them a confused cut-work of weals, livid flesh,
gashes and gore, insomuch that when he stood up, he could scarce walk;
in