[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] have been duly reprimanded by his superior officer. On this point an intelligent writer remarks: They were branded as " cow-thieves," etc. Perhaps they were cow-thieves; but at that period the most honorable men, both Whigs and Tories, living between the lines, were cow-thieves. The British soldiers and American Tories stole cows from the Whigs; the Whigs had no remedy but to steal them back again.... It is evident they were not thieves for gain, else would they have taken the price which Andre ottered for his ransom, which was more than would have sufficed to purchase the whole stock of cows, sheep, and oxen which belonged to Job when he was in the land of Uz.... Every New.Yorker should be proud that he was born in the State which produced three such men; and the fact of their being boys, and poor boys, adds very much to the glory of the act. Had this been done by a Van Cortlandt, a Philipse, a Van Rensselaer, or any three of the " Lords of the Manor," on the Hudson River, the act would have been engraven on the rocks with the point of a diamond. MAJOR ANDRE. THE CAPTURE OF ANDRE 493 Andre has been represented as one of the darlings of nature, an adorable child of genius. He was a poet, a painter, an amateur per-former, and, most interesting of all, a lover. But in all he was only a dabbler. He belongs to the large class of attractive characters of