Poker Jim Gentleman And Other Tales And Sketches
Poker Jim Gentleman And Other Tales And Sketches
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The noose slipped and he slowly strangled to death! The unhappy event made a most powerful impression upon my youthful mind, but I httle thought of the mental rehearsal of the awful scene that was in store for me.
''Standing out in bold relief from the rest of the picture of my past Ufe that was displayed before my mental vision as the mob completed its preparations for hanging me, was the fright- ful scene enacted on the gallows at the execution of the wife murderer in the jail yard of C — .
'...The most pecuHar feature of it all was that it was I, and not that wife murderer whose death throes I saw in my mind's eye. Horrible beyond conception were that awful choking, the agonized struggle for breath, the tumultuous spasms of the diaphragm, the tmtchings of the muscles and the frightful roaring in the ears which I experienced as the murderer slowly died of strangulation. As the hmbs of the dying man in the mental picture spas- modically flexed and extended themselves, I felt all of the agonizing pains experienced by sufferers from lock jaw or strychnine poisoning.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The noose slipped and he slowly strangled to death! The unhappy event made a most powerful impression upon my youthful mind, but I httle thought of the mental rehearsal of the awful scene that was in store for me.
''Standing out in bold relief from the rest of the picture of my past Ufe that was displayed before my mental vision as the mob completed its preparations for hanging me, was the fright- ful scene enacted on the gallows at the execution of the wife murderer in the jail yard of C — .
'...The most pecuHar feature of it all was that it was I, and not that wife murderer whose death throes I saw in my mind's eye. Horrible beyond conception were that awful choking, the agonized struggle for breath, the tumultuous spasms of the diaphragm, the tmtchings of the muscles and the frightful roaring in the ears which I experienced as the murderer slowly died of strangulation. As the hmbs of the dying man in the mental picture spas- modically flexed and extended themselves, I felt all of the agonizing pains experienced by sufferers from lock jaw or strychnine poisoning.
What to read after Poker Jim Gentleman And Other Tales And Sketches?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Lydston, G. Frank (George Frank), 1858-1923 to read onlineMoreLess
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