human
Just slip that fellow's head from the noose, Peter; we may need the rope again to-night.
gpt
That's but a grisly sight, gentlemen, to contemplate on a lowering evening.
human
But here is an ingenious contrivance, continued the freebooter, cheerfully,
gpt
I can well believe it,
human
An Englishman of great ingenuity had a plan for capturing us, but, as it stands, we captured him; and being a merciful man, always loth to hang, when anything else can be done, I set him at work here, and this is one of his constructions. As it's growing dark, come nearer that you may see how it works.