The Stranger in France
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The guillotine, painted red, wasplaced upon a scaffold, of about five feet high. As soon as the criminalascended the upper step which led to it he mounted, by the direction ofthe executioner, a little board, like a shutter, raised upright toreceive him, to which he was strapped, turned down flat, and run into asmall ring of iron half opened and made to admit the neck, the top partof which was then closed upon it, a black leather curtain was placedbefore the head, from which a valve depended, wh...ich communicated to atub, placed under the scaffold to receive the blood, the executionerthen touched a long thin iron rod, connected with the top of theinstrument, and in a moment the axe descended, which was in the form ofa square, cut diagonally, heavily charged with lead. The executioner andhis assistants placed the body in a shell, half filled with saw dust, which was almost completely stained over with the brown blood of formerexecutions; they then picked up the head, from a bag into which it hadfallen, within the curtain, and having placed it in the same gloomydepository, lowered the whole down to the sextons, who covering it witha pall bore it off to the place of burial.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The guillotine, painted red, wasplaced upon a scaffold, of about five feet high. As soon as the criminalascended the upper step which led to it he mounted, by the direction ofthe executioner, a little board, like a shutter, raised upright toreceive him, to which he was strapped, turned down flat, and run into asmall ring of iron half opened and made to admit the neck, the top partof which was then closed upon it, a black leather curtain was placedbefore the head, from which a valve depended, wh...ich communicated to atub, placed under the scaffold to receive the blood, the executionerthen touched a long thin iron rod, connected with the top of theinstrument, and in a moment the axe descended, which was in the form ofa square, cut diagonally, heavily charged with lead. The executioner andhis assistants placed the body in a shell, half filled with saw dust, which was almost completely stained over with the brown blood of formerexecutions; they then picked up the head, from a bag into which it hadfallen, within the curtain, and having placed it in the same gloomydepository, lowered the whole down to the sextons, who covering it witha pall bore it off to the place of burial.
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