| Author: | Alice Morse Earle | ISBN: | 1230000351690 |
| Publisher: | True North | Publication: | April 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Alice Morse Earle |
| ISBN: | 1230000351690 |
| Publisher: | True North |
| Publication: | April 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
The subject is not a pleasant one, though it often has a humorous element; but a punishment that is obsolete gains an interest and dignity from antiquity and its history becomes endurable because it has a past only and no future. That men were pilloried and women ducked by our law-abiding forbears rouses a thrill of hot indignation which dies down into a dull ember of curiosity when we reflect that they will never be pilloried or ducked again.
The subject is not a pleasant one, though it often has a humorous element; but a punishment that is obsolete gains an interest and dignity from antiquity and its history becomes endurable because it has a past only and no future. That men were pilloried and women ducked by our law-abiding forbears rouses a thrill of hot indignation which dies down into a dull ember of curiosity when we reflect that they will never be pilloried or ducked again.
