My Experiences as an Executioner

CHAPTER I.

The Executioner at Home.

BY H. SNOWDEN WARD.

James Berry, though regarded by some people as a monster, and by others as a curiosity, is very much like any other working-man when one comes to know him. He is neither a paragon of perfection, nor an embodiment of all vice--though different classes of people have at times placed him under both these descriptions. ...