text:  Then would rise the shouts of _gamins_ then would come the thick volley of eggs fish-heads butcher's-offal and all the garbage of the market aimed unerringly by many a strenuous arm at the heads of the culprits; and then the soldiers with their pertuisanes would make quick work among the legs of the retreating crowd and the jailers would apply the ready lash to the backs of the hardened criminals aloft; and thus the hour's exhibition ended and the "king's justice" satisfied away would the criminals be led some on a hurdle to Montfaucon and there hung on its ample gibbet amid the rattling bones of other wretches; some would be hurried back to the Chastelet or other prisons; and others would be sent off to work chained to the oars of the royal galleys