[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the other hand, whilst the recollection of this prodigious 454 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY deed of valor was still fresh in men's minds, Major Andre, who was to be the next central object of sentimental attention, found it fitting to select Wayne, of all American generals, as the hero of his Hudibrasian poem, "The Cow Chace." Wayne happened to be dis-tinguished for unconthness of general demeanor no less than for lion-like daring before the armed foe and woman-like tenderness be-fore the vanquished. Andre, the little curled and perfumed drawing-room darling, noted this uncouthness of the man, which indeed was the subject of many a smart jest among the fashionable ladies of New York, and discovered no artistic inconvenience in fitting the magnifi-cent conqueror of Stony Point to his farcical verse. There prob-ably is no more informing test of Andre's real parts, about which so much amusing hysterical nonsense has been written, than this little circumstance. As the guns of the Stony Point fortress bore only on the land side and northward (there being no occasion for the British engineers to direct them athwart the river, since the Americans could not attack from below), it was impracticable to reduce the Westchester Fort Lafayette from the captured height. Moreover, Washington con-sidered it unprofitable to rearrange the Stony Point armament, or even to hold the place, exposed as it was to attack by land and water.