A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . all children may curse me, and that I may die alone. Ialso swear that if any brother turns traitor, I will aid, to the utmost of myability, in bringing him to punishment, and carry out, without shirking, allorders of the duly elected officers of the brotherhood, to that end, whether byfire or water, club, knife or halter. Here the twelve painted Tramps gave a grunt, a long groan changing intoa roar, flung their clubs in a heap on the ground, and resumed their places inthe circle. After a few moments pause, the twelve men, who were
A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . all children may curse me, and that I may die alone. Ialso swear that if any brother turns traitor, I will aid, to the utmost of myability, in bringing him to punishment, and carry out, without shirking, allorders of the duly elected officers of the brotherhood, to that end, whether byfire or water, club, knife or halter. Here the twelve painted Tramps gave a grunt, a long groan changing intoa roar, flung their clubs in a heap on the ground, and resumed their places inthe circle. After a few moments pause, the twelve men, who were called Execu-tioners, again stepped . forward, and Chivvy was instructed to hand them eacha knife, when the same ceremony was performed as with the clubs, varied onlyby placing the knives across the novitiates throat, instead of over his the halters were placed around his neck, and the ceremony repeated fora third time. After this, Coal-tar George placed a black bag over thenovitiates head, and tied it round his neck, while the twelve executioners.
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