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017 - chapter 17 · In Our Time

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain, chapter number seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: They hanged Sam Cartinella at six o'clock in the morning
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  Speaker 1: in the corridor of the county jail. The corridor was
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  Speaker 1: high and narrow, with tiers of cells on either side.
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  Speaker 1: All the cells were occupied. The men had been brought
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  Speaker 1: in for the hanging. Five men sentenced to be hanged
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  Speaker 1: were in the five top cells. Three of the men
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  Speaker 1: to be hanged were Negroes. They were very frightened. One
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  Speaker 1: of the white men sat on his cot with his
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  Speaker 1: head in his hands. The other lay flat on his
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  Speaker 1: cot with a blanket wrapped around his head. They came
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  Speaker 1: out on to the gallows through the door on the wall.
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  Speaker 1: There were six or seven of them, including two priests
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  Speaker 1: who were carrying Sam Cartinella. He had been like that
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  Speaker 1: since about four o'clock in the morning. While they were
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  Speaker 1: strapping his legs together, two guards held him up, and
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  Speaker 1: the two priests were whispering to him. Be a man,
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  Speaker 1: my son, said one priest. When they came toward him
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  Speaker 1: with the cap to go over his head, Sam Cardinella
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  Speaker 1: lost control of his figter muscle. The guards who had
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  Speaker 1: been holding him up dropped him. They were both disgusted.
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  Speaker 1: How about a chair, will, asked one of the guards.
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  Speaker 1: Better get one, said a man in a derby hat.
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  Speaker 1: When they all stepped back on the scaffolding back of
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  Speaker 1: the drop, which was very heavy, built of oak and
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  Speaker 1: steel and swung on ball bearings, Sam Cardinella was left
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  Speaker 1: sitting there, strapped tight, the younger of the two priests
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  Speaker 1: kneeling beside the chair. The priest skipped back on to
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  Speaker 1: the scaffolding just before the drop fell. End of Chapter seventeen.