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Updated: May 24, 2025
While this was going on, John Bumpus was fulfilling his mission to Ole Thorwald. He found that obstinate individual in his own parlor, deep in the investigation of the state of his books of business, which had been allowed to fall into arrears during his absence. "Come in, Bumpus. So I hear you were half-hanged when we were away."
Give us time, and we shall arrive. The otherwise American, who is aggressive, straightway proceeds to thrust a piece of half-hanged municipal botch-work under the nose of the alien as a sample of perfected effort.
"Avast heaving there, Master Fritz! as it is, I am a half-hanged man already, so death has now no terrors Dov me; it is the first pang that is most felt." "Yes; but in the case of tigers, they never give you time to feel a second pang; miss your aim, and it is all over with you." "True; and therefore I wish you would give up the project.
Time passed away and wrought its wonted changes. Among other things, it brought back to Portsmouth big, burly Jack Molloy, as hearty and vigorous as he was when being half-hanged in the Soudan, but minus a leg! Poor Jack! a spent cannon-ball would that it had been spent in vain! removed it, below the knee, much more promptly than it could have been taken off by the surgeon's knife.
"Ay, John Miles, that's just what I does mean," returned the seaman, with an anxious and startled look at the door, on the other side of which a slight noise was heard at the moment. "They've half-hanged me three times already. The last time was only yesterday, an' at any moment they may come to give me another turn. It's the uncertainty o' the thing that tries my narves.
Ole wheeled round on his stool and hooked his thumbs into the arm-holes of his vest as he said this, leaned his back against his desk, and regarded the seaman with a facetious look. "Half-hanged, indeed," said Bumpus, indignantly. "I was more than half three-quarters at least. Why, the worst of it's over w'en the rope's round your neck."
Here is a half-hanged creature, who, on the very day he escapes from the gallows, which many believe was his most deserved destiny, comes to take away the reputation of a Protestant Peer and on what? on the treasonable conversation of three or four German fiddlers, heard through the sound-holes of a violoncello, and that, too, when the creature was incased in it, and mounted on a man's shoulders!
No, no: give me the Germans or the Jews for executioners: they can do the hanging properly, while the English hangman is like the Russian, to whom, when the rope broke, the half-hanged revolutionary said: "What a country, where they cannot hang a man properly!"
What of Anne Devlin, Emmet's faithful servant, helping in his preparations for insurrection, aiding his flight, shielding him in hiding, even when tortured, scourged, half-hanged by a brutal soldiery, with stern-shut lips refusing to utter a word to compromise her "Master Robert"? What of the sister of Henry Joy McCracken, Mary, the friend and fellow-worker with the Belfast United Irishmen?
While this was going on, John Bumpus was fulfilling his mission to Ole Thorwald. He found that obstinate individual in his own parlour, deep in the investigation of the state of his books of business, which had been allowed to fall into arrear during his absence. "Come in, Bumpus. So I hear you were half-hanged when we were away."
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