"Yes; she heard the stories, and it made her feel very badly."
"How did she look?"
"A little like thy grandmother Parlin, if I remember, only she was much larger."
"Did she know anything?"
"O, yes; it was rather an ignorant neighborhood; but she was one of the most intelligent women in it."
"Did she ever go anywhere?"
"Yes; she came to my mother for sympathy. I remember just how she looked in her tow and linen dress, with her hair fastened at the back of the head with a goose-quill."
"There, there!" cried Dotty, "that was what made 'em call her a witch!"
"O, no; a goose-quill was quite a common fashion in those times, and a great deal prettier, too, than the waterfalls thee sees nowadays. Mrs. Knowles dressed like other people, and looked like other people, for aught I know; but I wished she would not come to our house so much."
"Didn't you like her?"