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A SPIDERS WEB - PETER N WITT CHARLES F REED DAV...

Gradually  a faint brightness appeared in the east  and the air  which had been very warm
through the night  felt cool and chilly. Though there was no daylight yet  the darkness was
diminished  and the stars looked pale. The prison  which had been a mere black mass with little
shape or form  put on its usual aspect  and ever and anon a solitary watchman could be seen
upon its roof  stopping to look down upon the preparations in the street . . . By and by the
feeble light grew stronger  and the houses with their sign-boards and inscriptions stood
plainly out  in the dull grey morning . . . And now  the sun's first beams came glancing into
the street  and the night's work  which  in its various stages and in the varied fancies of the
lookers-on had taken a hundred shapes  wore its own proper form - a scaffold and a gibbet . . .
(The Complete Works of Charles Dickens  Harper & Brothers  New York and London  Barnaby Rudge 
Vol. II  Chapter XIX  page 164. ) Dickens describes an activity which takes place in the early
morning hours  just before sunrise. As the day begins and people start to go about their
business and get ready to watch the hanging  the hangman is ready with the gallows.

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