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breaking on the wheel I get twelve, and then there’s
pinching with red-hot pincers, that’s two dollars for every pinch,
and that’s all; there’s nothing more except such extras as
may come up.”
“It can’t be very hard to learn, is it?”
“The business? Well, any one can do it, but how—that’s
another matter. There’s a certain knack about it
that one gets with practice, just like any other handicraft.
There’s whipping at the post, that’s not so easy, if ’t is
to be done right,—three flicks with each whip, quick and
light like waving a bit of cloth, and yet biting the flesh
with due chastisement, as the rigor of the law and the
betterment of the sinner require.”
“I think I might do it,” said Jens, sighing as he spoke.
“Here’s the earnest-penny,” tempted the man at the
folding-table, putting a few bright silver coins out before
him.
“Think well!” begged Sören.
“Think and starve, wait and freeze—that’s two pair of
birds that are well mated,” answered Jens, rising.
“Farewell as an honest and true guild-man,” he went on, giving
Sören his hand.
“Farewell, guild-mate, and godspeed,” replied Sören.
He went round the table with the same farewell and
got the same answer. Then he shook hands with Marie and
with the man in the corner, who had to let go his hat for the
moment.
Jens proceeded to the man at the folding-table, who
settled his face in solemn folds and said: “I, Master Herman
Köppen, executioner in the town of Aarhus, take you in
the presence of these honest men, a journeyman to be and
a journeyman’s work to perform, to the glory of God, your
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