I do not even know them; I never saw them before in my life," growled the indignant old seaman.
"See! there is the little yellow bird kissing his lips!" cried Abigail Williams.

"Now it is whispering into his ear.

It is bringing him a message from the other witch Dulcibel Burton.

See! see! there it goes back again to her--through the window!" So well was this done, that probably half of the people present would have been willing to swear the next day, that they actually saw the yellow bird as she described it.
"Ask him if he did not give her the yellow bird," said Leah Herrick.
"But probably he will lie about it." "Did you not give the witch, Dulcibel Burton, a yellow bird, which is one of her familiars ?" said Squire Hathorne sternly.
"I gave her a canary bird that I brought from the West Indies, if that is what you mean," replied the Captain.

"But what harm was there in that ?" "I knew it! The yellow bird told me so, when it came to peck out my eyes," cried Mercy Lewis.