And so ended my first practical joke with the screw-heads.
RE-ENACTING HISTORY—A SKETCH AT TARRYTOWN.
Major André. "Look here, fellers, there ain't a-goin' to be no hanging, yer know."
John Paulding. "No hangin'! W'at er yer talkin' 'bout? D'yer s'pose we're a-goin' back onter history and Gineral Washington? Get out! Course yer've got to be hanged; and ef yer don't like it, we'll get some feller as does. That's all there is to it."