Curious Punishments of Bygone Days

By Alice Morse Earle

Book Overview

The subject is not a pleasant one, though it often has a humorous element; but a punishment that is obsolete gains an interest and dignity from antiquity and its history becomes endurable because it has a past only and no future.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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508518483
• ISBN13: 9781508518488
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"