Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-07-07
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mother sang simple little song enough.
though a strange one for witch:
Hush my babe; lie still and slumbei
Holy angels guard thy bed,
Heavenly blessings without number
Gather round thy infant cad.
The listener waited till the voice ceased
and then opening the window, said eau
tiously:
1--WE brought the esome milk, mistress"
The witch was there in an instant with
thankful exclamation on her lips, and
this time the other forgot TO be alarmed
at her vicinity, for the little can stuck fast
between The bars, and both were only bent
on extracting it.
Mistress Wilson had laid aside her wild
ow's cap tor the night. and loosened her
dark hair that fell like veil over her
shoulders. The light from the lamp, that
the iailel's wife had set on the window
ledge. shone on her white forehead and
dowpcast lids, with their delicately firing
ed lashes. while her slender fingers
worked about the cup to draw it through.
As it Welded at last, she said, as if The
unlooked-fo kindness awakened sud
utti uOpt, Uut IN d 'DiSS 'iie's "S'i''J ~ '"N
coming tears:
"Oh, Mistress Burns, wilt thou think OF
nv boy sometimes which"
That was too much tor the other. To
her excited fancy the deep, violet blue
eyes shone with Il mysterious light, and
who could tell but the breath from those
sorrowing-speaking lips had already con-
tamnated her The closing window cut
,Ln roo, hiStroes Rurnc SpatrhpI
her lamp and sped away.
..Shalt be at the hanging?n asked her
friends when they took leave.
ut is very early in the morning. was
the doubtful answer.
They say it is thus ordered that there
NAV be no great crowd as heretofore. 1t
creates clamor and disturbance that is
unseemly in town so plainly under the
judgments of Providence as this. Sill,
myself think to be there, for OF the last
was prevented by my husbands cousin.
Increase Goodwin, with his wife and chill
dren and wite's sister, who all came to
see them that were hanged o Tuesday,
so that | was forced to stand at the kitch-
en- fire and prepare meal for them while
they amused themselves in the streets.
This time, however, is ny turn, since no
the morning. And surely it is a comfort
ing and ediiying spectacle in these troub-
Ious times, TO see the wretches given over
to their father. the devil"
.'Ay,n said another OF the women, land
perchance she win confess in the end, as
Hester Scott did at sight Of the gallows.
For Hester declared, as ye all know, not
only that she herself had attended the
osf C,t, Int talt of 1xhn
sne had met in that devils congregations,
and spake of none. forsooth. with more
certainty than of Mistress Wilson. who
shoulder, and boosted of how she was
drawing the Dalton child's blood from its
tinger-ends and tormenting Mr.. Williams
son thrice daily. 1t is an excellent thing
when the witches confess. Only SO can
full knowledge be obtained who among
us is sold to Satan"
Verify" said third. ''Howbeit. to
my thinking. the judges act somewhat
slowly in this matter, and give the evil
time to spread One hundred and fifty
imprisoned, and as yet but seventy con-
demned, and only twenty hanged! !
doubt the gentlemen would do better to
proceed more quickly with the sentences,
many escape detection, from the impossi-
bilty of bringing them to trial. Well.
well, we must be watchful to prayer and
tarry in patience till it pleaseth the Lord
to look upon our aflliction. l wish thee
good night mistress, and hope to meet
thee tomorrow.
There were many in the town that night
who walked to weep and pray. In one
house were some grievously tormented,
in another member of the family had
been torn from the midst of it, charged
with practicing the devices of Satan. and
dragged, accursed of God and man, TO
imprisonment, condemnation and death.
i Al one who sat in Salem Jail heard every
hour of the night go by, till the Waterman
called for the last time his delusive cry of
"All's well !" and the day had dawned-
the day when witch was to die.
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