| 1 | That gibbet is always good to look at. | |
| 2 | The scaffold became the first item in the museum' s collection. | |
| 3 | Thus my excuse for the gallows humor that pervades this story. | |
| 4 | The alchemist would be dressed in a tinsel suit and hanged from a gallows covered in gold-colored foil. | |
| 5 | They would be hanged until half-dead, upon which their genitals would be cut off and burned in front of them. |