Of course he will have his action for damages against you, and you will be willing to pay him fairly, but if he brings you before a jury of New Yorkers, and you simply relate the facts, and the necessity of the case, little will he get of damages beyond a plentiful supply of jokes and laughter.

You know there is very little love lost between the people of the two colonies; and that the Manhattan people have no more respect for all the witchcraft business, than you and I have." Master Raymond made no reply.

He did not want to kidnap a minister, if it could be in any way avoided.

With Master Putnam, however, that seemed to be one of the most desirable features of the proposed plan, only he was tenfold more sorry now than ever, that such weighty prudential reasons prevented his taking any active share in the enterprise.

To kidnap a minister--especially if it could be the Reverend Cotton Mather--seemed to him something which was worth almost the risking of his liberty and property in which to take a hand..