I don't think I was ever more scared in my life.

My hair stood on end like the quills of the fretful porcupine; I could not imagine what on earth it was.

I took it to be some hellish machination of a Yankee trick.

I did not know whether to run or stand, until I heard Tom laugh and say, "Well, well, that's a jack o'lantern." COLONEL FIELD Before proceeding further with these memoirs, I desire to give short sketches of two personages with whom we were identified and closely associated until the winding up of the ball.

The first is Colonel Hume R.Field.