Now THAT man knew.

I'd like to be hanged enough to find out how it goes, and then come back, and brag about it.

I don't think it hurts much; I believe I'll try it." So Leon took the rope Laddie lowered the baskets with, and threw it over a big limb.

Then he rolled up a barrel and stood on it and put my sunbonnet on with the crown over his face, for a black cap, and made the rope into a slip noose over his head, and told me to stand back by the apple tree and hold the rope tight, until he said he was hanged enough.

Then he stepped from the barrel.