fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers

fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences

much out of the common way. In the midst of them, the hangman,

ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant

requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous

criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had

been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at