The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-01-11

ailor y name or witch. She nasren-
mar SIND changed her dress, assum-
Nh e Sual garb, and then made her
z highway and sat in snug
Ip hedge, knitting a pair of
.resently the Irish laborers
cir days work being done.
IN OF ""' up and dropped her knit
Akm Kids been good to you
The pud enough for them to
q X t complaining" one of
~ eff know that" said Mol
!w' in the credit to you. But
~sF -lse - your groans, and he's
-r'ly'oda, q, :; ed a fine church and a
t rb e,v y selves S a., %,
e e c Snt ,'yI d.
~ "a lhy, her eyes to the sky and,
u, 'li N cir rd with the knitting needle,
So N hNm'lemn tone, Il have it from
= the men crossed themselves, utter
> c1Somc hurried words and passed on.
T. tis to the other side of the road as
ati",Nd so.
/, - m,vo awe ks time, when the priest
X hrsfaport town came along with
rs OF thGen and began inspecting. the
ma colony began to wonder. When n
n'ng came and began to dig and carts
came along with stone and lime and 9th
er things, the colony wondered still
more, and finally when the priest inform
ed them that they were to have a priest
and church they were dumb Not a
word did they say outside about the
prophecy of Molly the Witch, but among
themselves they talked it over, and not n
few of the women would stroll in the di-
rcction of Molly's dwelling and say good
morning and occasionally carry her lit
tie present. After the church and par
sonage were completed and services were
held somehow or other the fact that Mol
ly had foretold what was going to hap
pen became known, and from far and
near people came and consulted her about
this. that and the other and she did n
fine stroke of business.
just about this time lucifer matches, as
they were called, came into use in big
towns and cities, but were unknown to
the country people. One day when Moi
- NHo olttlllS III illt ltuBH Oh lile nl8n-
way as usual the stagecoach came up the
hill at snail's pace, and one of the pas
sengers on the top had just lighted his
pipe with one of the new matches Some
of the outsiders threw small pieces of
silver to the old woman and one of them
q box of the matches. These she treas
ured more than the money. for after a lit
tie while she discovered that with their
aid she could get fire. She waited until
she saw some people coming along; then
she took out her pipe and asked man
for light. He hadn't one. he SAID
Then, she said, Il must ger one rom
my friend
SO saying she made some odd notions
with her hands am muttered Juc min
telllglble Jargon. tae sane time she
drew match and applied to her pipe
AT the sight of he 7aP apparently pro-
cured by he w'teh's rcautatiou The peo-
pie uttered cNa. nations Of horror and
hurried away
Molly "as greatly elatcd / this and,
as the story sot abroad runbers of per-
sons went to sec her N hopes that she
would 'cail hre from heaven" as pious
Old Methodist said.
All this brought money to Molly's purse.
An attempt was made to induce the local
magistrates to Interfere and send Molly
to a prison as vagrant, seeing that she
had no apparent means of support. Ev-
erythlng failed, however, and Molly re-
solved on great exhibition of her pow
ers at the coming fair in the market town.
SO when the time came Molly walked
through the town in her red petticoat,
white kirtle and well starched, high