"It is enough."
"You surrender?"
"No, by heaven, no! The Yorkers have no power over me. I hold my farm from New Hampshire, and only to the governor of New Hampshire will I relinquish it."
"Then we shall use force."
"So shall we."
"It is treason."
"It is loyalty to my country. Boys, these men are crazy; they are so because the moon is at the full."
Instantly the Green Mountain Boys were ready to resist any attack.
The sheriff gave the order to fire.
Both sides obeyed the sheriff, and a blinding smoke rose from the old muskets.