My old friend ate with a good appetite and wanted me to take a bit too; but my throat felt as cramped as if they had already taken my measure round it with the gallows rope.

He gave each of the two heydukes who accompanied him in the felon's car, one on his right, the other on his left, a silver coin apiece.

The heydukes told us afterwards that when he got outside he rose up in the car and addressed the people.

He was a tall, handsome fellow with red cheeks, long black hair and a fine sonorous voice like any chaplain's.

His last words were: 'Well, I now look upon this fair world for the last time.'" [Footnote 15: Hungarian pilau.] "Did he leave behind him any new songs," enquired Hatszegi.