text:  They began by dressing him in a uniform covering his face with a huge pair of whiskers and loading him with the heaviest firelock which they could find they then made him perform the manual exercise for two hours--accompanying the lesson with all the usual discipline of the cane--then ordered him to dance and sing finishing their discipline by making the surgeon take from him a large quantity of blood obviously to reduce the heat of temper which had given rise to such impertinence