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Speaker 1: Hooch by William Sandford. I had committed murder in a

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terrible fit of rage. I had killed my friend Jim McCarthy.

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I was going to be hung at sunrise. There was

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no hope. I must die. Slowly, the great steel doors

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swung open, and four guards entered my cell. One of

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them stepped a little in advance of the others come

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he said that was all. I rose tottering from my bench.

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I must die. I must leave the sunlight of the

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earth behind me. I had committed murder. I was led

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through the cold, bleak prison corridors and out into the

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lighted courtyard, where a number of people were gathered, prison

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officials and a few newspaper men. The scaffold stood before me,

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and with tottering legs, I was assisted to the top.

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A black cap, a horrible thing spelling death, was fitted

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over my head and drawn tight about my neck. All

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was still about me. No one spoke. I felt the

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noose placed about my neck. The cold sweat broke out

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over my body. I could scarcely stand death. Death. I

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was to know the feeling of that terrible rope. In

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a few moments, ready, said a sharp voice, I felt

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the earth slip from under me, and I shot into space.

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A feeling of suffocation, indescribably terrible, enveloped me, and a

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million sparks of fire seemed dancing before my eyes, though

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I could not see. I tried to scream, but could

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make no sound. Then something seemed to burst. My lungs

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were free. I gave a terrible cry. A voice from

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above came sharply down to me, What the devil's the

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matter with you? Bill? The ship gave a lurch and

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brought me wide awake. In the dim light of the cabin,

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I saw Jim McCarthy's face peering at me from the

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bunk above. Jim, I said, wiping my sweat soaked face

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with the sheet. If you fill me up on any

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more of your home made hooch, I will kill you.

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The end of Hooch.