The Axe Noose

The noose was intended for the axe, it was impossible for him to carry the axe through the street in his hands. He folded this strip in two and took off his wide, strong summer overcoat of some stout cotton material,. His only outer garment, and began sewing the two ends of the rag on the inside, under the left arm hole. When he put on the coat again, the needle and thread he had got ready long before, and they lay on his table in a piece of paper as for the noose. It was a very ingenious device of his own. Now, he only had to put the head of the axe in the noose and it would hang quietly under

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