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17 unhappy vietimvictim [sic], the old man; sometimes  would strip him naked, and paint him all  with various sorts of colours, which they, or made from herbs and roots; at other , they would pluck the white hairs from his  beard, and tauntingly tell him, he was  for living so long, and that they would  him kindness in putting him out of the ; to all which the poor creature could but nt his sighs, his tears, his moans, and entreaties, , to my affrighted imagination, were enough  penetrate a heart of adamant, and soften the  obdurate savage. In vain, alas! were all tears, for daily did they tire themselves with  various means they tried to torment him— tying him to a tree, and whipping ; at others, scorching his furrowed cheeks  red-hot coals, and burning his legs, quite to  knees; but the good old man, instead of reng, or wickedly arraigning the divine justice,  many others in such cases, even in the  agonies, incessantly offered up his prayers to  Almighty, with the most fervent  for his former mercies, and hoping the flames, surrounding and burning his aged limbs,  soon send him to the blessful mansions of ust, to be a partaker of the blessings there. during such his pious ejaculations, his  plages would come round him, mimiekingmimicking [sic]