Little Grandmother

ent back to Dr. Hilton's. "You didn't giggle any, hardly, and he knew

, and made them seem a little less dreadful. Perhaps she wouldn'

have spoken out so to one of you children; for you see your father is about the best friend he's go

blame, and she hadn't done any thing so very bad after all, and would

By the time they reached Dr. Hilton's she was quite calm, and when Siller asked her if she woul

kberry tea they had drunk at supper time was too strong for Siller's nerves; at any rate, she felt so wide awake that

set the simple woman to thinking,-not of the great and good God of whom

's kind of a creeping feeling goes over me such shiny nights as th

"you don't believe in such foolishness

membered that Mrs. Lyman was very particul

itches go flying round when the moon

at folks s

, Siller, I thought

lack eyes spark

me related to Sir William Phips; that used to be Gove

heard of

ears ago; but he didn't make fun of witches, I can tell

s?" said l

s cats and dogs, and all sorts of creeturs, and going about doing

heard plenty about the Salem Witchcraft, and kne

Arc over there to Salem?" went on Siller,

f Noah's ark,"

rched at the head of an army, all so grand; but she got foun

," said Mary; "and it wasn't in this country either, 'twas in Fran

ortified, and picked up a

young girl, and not a witch. I know some of the people calle

ing she knows everything, Polly Lyman," returned Siller, laying down her knitting in her excitement; "and 'twill take more'n your m

here?" cried

ver heard her say to her cat was "Poor pussy." But Siller did not like to be laughed at by a little

y is it? Mrs. Knowles asked my mother if it was having a gray cat that made folks call her

t did your mother say when Mrs.

Knowles not to part with her gray

gs that's going; but either Goody Knowles is a witch, or else

onin, what make

s a sure sign. Then Daddy Wiggins, he weighed her once against the church Bible, and she was the lightest, and that's another sure sign. Moreover, he trie

ried Patty, "with hair in the middle? I've

ere never was a witch that

's bad?" says Mary, laughing a litt

s you may have heard. Last spring Daddy Wiggins's cows

Mr. Wiggins's cows had had hay enough, they wouldn't have

't bewitch any of his creeturs; it's only her enemies she injures. And that makes me think, children, that it's kind of curious for us

ed Patty, curling her h

eginning to feel ashamed of herself, for she had not intended to tal

s off to bed; but by this time their eyes