Synopsis

The Punishment of the Pump. “To the pump with him! And see that he has a double dose of it!” The words were spoken in a tone of command, earnest and angry. They were addressed to the overseer of a cotton-plantation not far from Vicksburg, in the State of Mississippi, the speaker being Blount Blackadder, a youth aged eighteen, and son to Squire Blackadder, the owner of the plantation. Who was to receive the double douche? Nearby stood a personage to whom the words evidently pointed.