The impetus for the events of this story lies in one character threatening to "eat" his master "up" after failing to salute at the stroke of two.
One character in this work describes how "no one passes up" the opportunity to lap at a bowl of rice pudding, and that character earlier stuffed a pair of ladies' handkerchiefs into his collar. The impetus for the events of this story lies in one character threatening to "eat" his master "up" after failing to salute at the stroke of two. The [?] Soldier accidentally tears a leather wrist strap, prompting another character to replace it with a chain while continually complaining about the New Commandant. It ends with the Officer replacing the Condemned Man in the Harrow and dying as "Be Just" is inscribed upon his body. For 10 points, identify this short story in which the Traveller observes the use of a torture machine, a work of Franz Kafka.
One character in this work describes how "no one passes up" the opportunity to lap at a bowl of rice pudding, and that character earlier stuffed a pair of ladies' handkerchiefs into his collar.
“In the {Penal Colony}” [or “In {der Strafkolonie}”]