Please follow these instructions:

1. Read the text aloud and record yourself
2. Store your reading in a MP3
   
3. Click the link [Reply]
4. Attach the MP3 to your reply
5. Listen to the recordings of other students
   

Remark 1: You can't see other peoples' replys before you post your text.
Remark 2: Next time every student will be given a different part of the text and we create our own audio book!

Reading

The man who was engaged in being hanged was apparently about thirty-five years of age. He was a civilian, if one might judge from his habit, which was that of a planter. His features were good--a straight nose, firm mouth, broad forehead, from which his long, dark hair was combed straight back, falling behind his ears to the collar of his well fitting frock coat. He wore a moustache and pointed beard, but no whiskers; his eyes were large and dark gray, and had a kindly expression which one would hardly have expected in one whose neck was in the hemp. Evidently this was no vulgar assassin. The liberal military code makes provision for hanging many kinds of persons, and gentlemen are not excluded.

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