Show eating his words A recent suit in moscow in which city tho vas A most punishment very forcibly one of the inestimably inesti mablo bles aings en joyed in this country where shefre dom press h a and right alio facts in the caso referred to alq as follows in that city a goodly aided boak was published in altion oftay hights of tha subject tha bertt aimed at tho venality of the officials with many humorous and iniquities even the azur and wa handled without gloves and his acts won fearlessly denounced and a powerful powei ful argument wai in behalf of the rights of his subjects a the mal of diio law was set forth in annl the look attracted general notice but this bad for lie author ho was arrested and into prison after a short and summary trial his production was a libel and ho wi condemned to eat hia own words or suffrin tho punishment of the knout this terrible instrument of torture is in the shape of a long whip or scourge composed cam posed of many tough thongs of thick hard skin plaited together and interwoven with strands of stout hii P the criminal arid firmly bound to two which are sufficiently wide apart to admit the free motion of tha head the blows are imd on tho bare back every cutting like ft knife and soon the victim af tho scourge is n shapeless mass of bloody falegh ono hundred blows is to ft death sentence this via i the alternative offered tho unhappy author the day fixed fop carrying into execution the s nence of the court arrived A platform vis aci l of alic public squares of the city bound hand and fo wi seated in the center of the platform A w of people hid assembled to witness tho apo the imperial provost the and the physician and burgon of thi cicar were in attendance book hadj jeen separated aiom its binding and 18 tan act tho margin had lean cutoff he boiled roiled up not unlike cigar lighters and a began amid roars of laughter from lh and populace tha provost ahw served tho author loaf by leaf with his own production putting tha rolls of paper one by ono into hist mouth up slowly chewed and swallowed ono third of his book when the medical gentlemen gent lomen concluded taftt he had into hia stomach aa much of tho material a wa i compatible mith safety he wa re conducted to his cell to digest hi meal it was re unell every atwal lowed and n i maker of fact iter Atly to eat hia own words mo amount of oratory whether printed atao define no eloquently lit tic tho crowning rarely of free brexa exercised andora free government |