This young man was James Device, son of Elizabeth, and some four or five years older than Alizon.

He did not live with his mother in Whalley, but in Pendle Forest, near his old relative, Mother Demdike, and had come over that morning to attend the wake.
"Whot are ye abowt, Jennet ?" inquired James Device, in tones naturally hoarse and deep, and which he took as little pains to soften, as he did to polish his manners, which were more than ordinarily rude and churlish.
"Whot are ye abowt, ey sey, wench ?" he repeated, "Why dunna ye go to t' green to see the morris-dancers foot it round t' May-pow?
Cum along wi' me." "Ey dunna want to go, Jem," replied the little girl.
"Boh yo shan go, ey tell ey," rejoined her brother; "ye shan see your sister dawnce.

Ye con sit a whoam onny day; boh May-day cums ony wonst a year, an Alizon winna be Queen twice i' her life.

Soh cum along wi' me, dereckly, or ey'n may ye." "Ey should like to see Alizon dance, an so ey win go wi' ye, Jem," replied Jennet, getting up, "otherwise your orders shouldna may me stir, ey con tell ye." As she came out, she found her brother whistling the blithe air of "Green Sleeves," cutting strange capers, in imitation of the morris-dancers, and whirling his cudgel over his head instead of a kerchief.

The gaiety of the day seemed infectious, and to have seized even him.