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 ﻿of the city, městský. to close, zavřití. a street, ulice.

a square, market-place, námlsli. to occupy, osázeli. especially, nejvíce. Saxon, Sasky.

a balcony,  allan (from  the

German), before, in front of, před. the Town Hall, radnice, f. a judge, soudce (see p. 8 about

these nouns derived from

verbs which belong to the

first declension), commissioner, komissař.

\vapex\z\,císařský (see rule about the formation of the plur. of adjectives ending in -ský).

eye, oko (see rule about the duals of some of these nouns).

a prisoner, vez-en, s.m. (from a root signifying ' to bind.' Cf. Russ. CBH3Ka, a bundle.)

to bring, to lead, vodili.

after the other, podruhem.

from, 2.

scaffold, lehni.

to the block, ke sttnadlu (from slinadlo); observe ke, because the next word begins with two consonants.

EXERCISE V.

The gates of the city were closed; the streets in the market- place strongly occupied by soldiery, especially Saxon. On a balcony before the Town Hall sat the judges and the imperial commissioners, before whose eyes the prisoners were brought one after the other from the Town Hall on a scaffold to the block. The first beheaded was Joachim Andrew Slik. . . . Dr. Jan Jesenský, a celebrated medical man and rector of the University, had first his tongue torn from his mouth and then his head cut off; his body was quartered under the gallows and placed on stakes about the streets. Mercy was shown to Sixtus of Ottersdorf when he was already on the scaffold, and he was taken back to prison. While the execution lasted, the drums were beaten continually, and trumpets were blown, so that the speeches of the condemned men should not be heard, who all went to death with manly courage.