"Well, tell us what you know of this matter.—Why, I am a gospel woman; and do you think I can have to do with witchcraft too?
"How could you tell, then, that the child was bid to observe what clothes you wore, when some came to speak with you?
"(Cheever interrupted her, and bid her not begin with a lie; and so Edward Putnam declared the matter.)
"Mr. Hathorne: Who told you that?—He said the child said.
"Cheever: You speak falsely.
"(Then Edward Putnam read again.)
"Mr. Hathorne: Why did you ask if the child told what clothes you wore?—My husband told me the others told.
"Who told you about the clothes? Why did you ask that question?—Because I heard the children told what clothes the others wore.
"Goodman Corey, did you tell her?
"(The old man denied that he told her so.)