You hoped you would make me think the sampler two hundred years older than it really is! And you thought that would make it much more valuable.

Well, you overreached yourself! There were no samplers made--so far as is known--in 1636.

So your trick wouldn't fool anybody!" "All right.

There's no harm done, that I can see.

My little joke fizzled out,--that's all." "No, that isn't all.