The mother perceived perceive her son gazing gaze enraptured outside the Lion Wallace booth , at the pictures of this famous lion that had killed kill a negro and maimed for life two white men .

At the moment of execution execution -- with the halter about his neck , and while Colonel Pyncheon sat on horseback , grimly gazing gaze at the scene Maule had addressed address him from the scaffold , and uttered a prophecy prophecy , of which history , as well as fireside tradition , has preserved the very words .

Then , gazing gaze over the handkerchief , he said say : — The bard ’s noserag !