As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. Bulging out more in the
middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end,
—a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased
by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced,
like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance
from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. Unlocking several doors, he came to a dark vault, that
would have rivalled the gloomiest cell in Newgate, into which he thrust Thames,
and fastened the door. Then
he stood up and repeated it again. He loved to sneak up
and stand ten feet or so behind you and just. "
"Why what will she say?" inquired Sheppard. ”
Lights went on inside the house on the upper level. He carried a small bag. “The horse’s knees are
broken, and I am not sure that the man is sober. Sometimes I take innocent lives. "I don't know his name. Most
unsatisfactory.
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