"I mean such a punishment." "You'll easily find an opportunity in Jerusalem," replied Andrew; and added with light mockery, "to see criminals impaled is the correct merry-making for poor men.

It costs nothing.

And yet I do not know a costlier pleasure." "How is the impaling done ?" Thaddeus wanted to know.
"That's easily described," Matthew informed them.

"Think of an upright post planted in the earth and a cross-beam near the top.

The poor sinner is bound naked to it, his arms stretched out.