The Deputies whipped fat boy longer and with more intensity than they had the slender boy. He twisted and stiffened to no avail. The whip strokes rippling his buttocks encouraged and enticed the crowd. They stood in the light rain and cheered on the Deputies. The Deputies crisscrossed fat boy’s bottom and thighs until they had covered every inch of his backside. When the Deputies finished with fat boy, they freed the boys from each other, bound their arms behind them, and tight-laced them into a pair of leather cocoons that completely encased them. Able to speak now, the boys pleaded with the Deputies right up to the point their faces disappeared inside the leather cocoons. Their muffled screams drifted out into the rain as Milady’s fine Furniture and Public Works Matrons came onto the st

