Witness: I were suddenly woke, and I was all of a tremble.
Mr. White Lush: You were frightened by something?
Witness: I were, sir, and I were not.
Mr. White Lush: I do not understand you. Was there anybody or anything in the room besides yourself?
Witness: I didn’t see nothink—not even a mouse.
Mr. White Lush: Then what were you frightened at?
Witness: It were a fancy, perhaps—or a dream that I couldn’t remember; and all at once I ’eerd a scream.
Mr. White Lush: From what direction?
Witness: From the next house, No. 119.