text:  Thereafter they ordered a rump and dozen being confident that as the day was bitterly cold and the snow some feet deep upon the ground the courage of the rioters would be cooled before they had finished dinner; and so it was for towards evening the temperature having descended considerably beneath the freezing point the mob who had now exhausted their beer and gin and who saw that there was no more fun to be expected for the day began to disperse each man to his home so that before nightfall the coast was clear; on which the justices with the _posse comitatus_ escorted the usher to the schoolhouse opened the door put him formally in possession and wishing him much good of his new appointment departed