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| 20 | 603 | In the View more quotes about boat">boat were two wide, shallow, wooden buckets, each half filled with wet, glistening leeches, taken from the water, often from the stems of water plants, such as rence. |
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| 20 | 600 | Ellen knew that sometimes even desiderated slaves, before a submission ceremony, were put on a simple camp rope and led about, that they would better understand their condition and status, that of a domestic animal, but in her case the rope was not symbolic in nature, but effected a simple utility, constituting a device for keeping and controlling a girl. |
| 20 | 601 | Ellen, bound, was led on her leash, stumbling, wading, through the reeds. |
| 20 | 602 | A bit later she was placed in a small, flat-bottomed boat, on her belly, under a tarpaulin. |
| 20 | 603 | In the boat were two wide, shallow, wooden buckets, each half filled with wet, glistening leeches, taken from the water, often from the stems of water plants, such as rence. |
| 20 | 604 | Before being put on her belly in the boat, Ellen's face, she on her knees, was almost thrust into these two buckets, one after the other, filled with twisting, inching, churning leeches, that she might see them. |
| 20 | 605 | She shrank back, as she could, in terror. |
| 20 | 606 | These creatures are utilized in some manner by the caste of physicians, not for indiscriminate bleeding as once on Earth, but for certain allied chemical and decoagulant purposes. |