Hould up your head, man, and don't be cast down.

You'll have company where you're goin'; for the Red Rapparee tould me to tell you that he'd wait for you.
Hallo!--what's that ?" he exclaimed as he cast his eye to the distance and discovered a horseman riding for life, with a white handkerchief, or flag of some kind, floating in the breeze.

The elevated position in which the executioner was placed enabled him to see the signal before it could be perceived by the crowd.

"Come, Sir Robert," said he, "stand where I'll place you--there's no use in asking you to hould up your head, for you're not able; but listen.

You hanged my brother that you knew to be innocent; and now I hang you that I know to be guilty.