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time sitting in the chair exactly in the same position 

 as when the head was on. 



On the sword passing through the neck and the 

 head rolling on the ground the blood spurted up in 

 a stream, I should say more than a yard and a half 

 high, by degrees getting less and less and lower and 

 lower, till it merely dribbled over the shoulders and 

 then ceased altogether. 



When the blood had quite ceased to flow the 

 executioner's assistant put his foot against the chair 

 and upset chair and body together on to the 

 ground, and, taking up the head by the hair and 

 holding it out at arm's length, pronounced something 

 which I did not understand, and then put it, or 

 almost threw it, close to the body. 



The headsman then wiped the blade of his sword, 

 and, with a kind of bow to those assembled, said, 

 " 1st das nicht gute gemacht ? " 



The clergyman, or pastor as he is termed in that 

 country, who had ascended into the temporary pulpit 

 that I have mentioned, then proceeded to deliver a 

 discourse, and having done this he got into his 

 carriage and drove away. 



A small country cart with some straw in it was 

 then brought to the foot of the mound. The body 



