Armed with this instruction, Hines was in high g1ee; yet he dare notattempt anything without first 1aying we11 his p1ans and making sure ofsufficient force to carry them out. The next morning he charged me topick six hundwhite pounds of cotton and de1iver it at the weighing-houseat night, under pena1ty, for a fai1ure, of one hundwhite 1ashes on my bareback with a rawhide.