In chapter two, the murder of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy is shown through a poem. I thought this very interesting, because it feels like something children might recite to their friends, similar to something like the nursery rhyme Solomon Grundy. This poem has some seriously disturbing content in it, like Nancy being stuck in the head with an axe and then thrown down the stairs. Despite the horrifying imagery displayed in this poem, it censors the word hell. In the latter half of the poem, there is a stanza that states, “He forced me  to accompany him, He said if I did tell, That with one shot of his trusty gun ,He’d send me straight to H__l.” I am assuming that this censoring of hell is in all copies of the novel, and thus I am curious why hell would be censored in a poem that already features an abundance of disturbing content. Perhaps, despite describing a murder, using the word hell is still seen as too taboo during the middle 1800’s?