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| 9 | 858 | Moreover it would be needed the View more quotes about next">next day. |
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| 9 | 855 | Then, in time, with the help of three or four other fellows, locating themselves along the coffle line, most of the weight being shortly borne by the wrist chains of the lovely "beads" themselves, we had doubled the chain, bringing it forward. |
| 9 | 856 | In this way we distributed the weight of the unused length of chain over the wrist chains of the last forty women or so, this constituting no unusual burden to any one of them. |
| 9 | 857 | We did not wish to cut the chain. |
| 9 | 858 | Moreover it would be needed the next day. |
| 9 | 859 | Coffle chains are usually adjusted, of course, to the number of women to be placed on it. |
| 9 | 860 | To be sure, women can be spaced more or less closely on such a chain. |
| 9 | 861 | A slaver's joke, one which free women are likely to hear with apprehension, has it that there is always room for another female on the chain. |