311 A digression
321 ——//—— When subsequently some days afterwards in reference to ^ the singularity just
mentioned

this , the Purser ^ a rather ruddy a rotund man person more accurate as an
accountant than profound as a thinker philosopher ,
said at mess to the Surgeon, "What testimony
to the force lodged in will-power" the latter
a rather
saturnine
man formally polite and spare man and tall , one in whom a whose discreet
causticity was went along with a man manner
85 cumbrously less genial than polite, replied, "Your pardon,
Mr. Purser. In a hanging scientiffically scientifically
conducted — and under special orders
I myself directed how Budd's was
to be effected — any motion movement following
the completed suspension and
originating in the body suspended,
such motion movement but indicates
311 A digression
321 ——//—— When subsequently some days afterwards in reference to ^ the singularity just
mentioned

this , the Purser ^ a rather ruddy a rotund man person more accurate as an
accountant than profound as a thinker philosopher ,
said at mess to the Surgeon, "What testimony
to the force lodged in will-power" the latter
a rather
saturnine
man formally polite and spare man and tall , one in whom a whose discreet
causticity was went along with a man manner
85 cumbrously less genial than polite, replied, "Your pardon,
Mr. Purser. In a hanging scientiffically scientifically
conducted — and under special orders
I myself directed how Budd's was
to be effected — any motion movement following
the completed suspension and
originating in the body suspended,
such motion movement but indicates

Transcribed by: Wyn Kelley