Ye Lyttle Salem Maide

Copyright, 1898, by Lamson, Wolffe and Company

“There, keep ye at that distance. I ken your sly ways.”

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Ye Lyttle Salem Maide

A Story of Witchcraft

By
Pauline Bradford Mackie
Author of
“Mademoiselle De Berny: A Story of Valley Forge”

Illustrated by
E. W. D. Hamilton

“This world is very evil,

The times are waxing late”

Lamson, Wolffe and Company
Boston, New York and London
MDCCCXCVIII

Copyright, 1898,
By Lamson, Wolffe and Company.

All rights reserved.

The Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

To Alice

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF OLD DAYS AT ENGLEWOOD

Contents

ChapterPage
I.A Meeting in the Forest[1]
II.Sir Jonathan’s Warning[18]
III.The Yellow Bird[38]
IV.In which Demons assault the Meeting-house[55]
V.The Coming of the Town Beadle[70]
VI.The Woman of Ipswich[80]
VII.The Trial of Deliverance[92]
VIII.The Last Witness[113]
IX.In which Abigail sees Deliverance[128]
X.A Little Life sweetly Lived[141]
XI.Abigail goes to Boston Town[158]
XII.Mr. Cotton Mather visits Deliverance[169]
XIII.In the Green Forest[188]
XIV.A Fellow of Harvard[206]
XV.Lord Christopher Mallett[226]
XVI.At the Governor’s House[244]
XVII.In a Sedan-chair[256]
XVIII.The Coming of Thomas[273]
XIX.On Gallows’ Hill[290]
XX.The Great Physician[309]

List of Illustrations

Page
“‘There, keep ye at that distance. I ken your sly ways’”[Frontispiece]
“‘Take care lest you harbour a witch in yonder girl’”[33]
“Strangely enough, the old woman seemed like a witch”[194]
“Her ladyship tilted her chin in the air”[260]