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Updated: May 1, 2025
Ranged along the walls of the room are some twenty rough wooden frames, looking like a compromise between a straw-cutter and a sewing-machine, each furnished with two strong rollers operated by a treadle and acting precisely like those of a clothes-wringer.
I am at a loss to explain how my faith should have been confirmed afterwards by coming upon a guillotine an awful instrument in the likeness of a straw-cutter, with a decapitated wooden figure under its blade which the custodian confessed to be a modern improvement placed there by Signor P . Yet my credulity was so strengthened by his candor, that I accepted without hesitation the torture of the water-drop when we came to it.
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