Do you know what I saw that Leah Herrick doing ?" "What was it ?" "In her pretended spasms, when bending nearly double, she was taking a lot of pins out of the upper edge of her stomacher with her mouth, preparatory of course, to making the accusation that it was Dulcibel's doings." "But she did not ?" "No, it was just before the time that Dulcibel scared them so with the predictions; and Leah was so frightened, lest she also should be predicted against, that she quietly spit all the pins into her hand again." "Ah, that was the game played by a girl about ten years ago at Taunton-Dean, in England.

Judge North told my father about it.

One of the magistrates saw her do it." "Well, now, what shall we do?
They will convict her just as surely as they try her." "Undoubtedly!" "Shall we attack and break open the jail some dark night, sword in hand?
I can raise a party of young men, friends of the imprisoned, to do it; they only want a leader." "And all of you go off into perpetual banishment and have all your property confiscated ?" "I do not care.

I am ready to do it." "If you choose to encounter such a risk for others, I have no objection.
I believe myself that if the friends and relatives of the accused persons would take up arms in defense of them, and demand their release, it would be the very manliest and most sensible thing they could do.

But the consciences of the people here make cowards of them.