Patty forgot the verse very soon; but Mary remembered it as long as she lived.
CHAPTER IV.
THE TITHING-MAN
One summer's day, two years or so after this, Moses was half sick with a "run-round" on his finger, and consented to go up in the spinning-chamber and play with Patty: he never played with girls when he was well. Dorcas was at the little flax-wheel spinning linen, and Patty was in a corner under the eaves, with her rag babies spread out before her,—quite a family of them. The oldest granddaughter was down with brain fever, and she wanted Moses to bleed her. Moses did it with great skill. When he practiced medicine, he pursued the same course Dr. Potter did, their family physician; he bled and "cupped" Patty's dolls, and gave them strong doses of calomel and "jalap."
DR. MOSES BLEEDS AND CUPS.—Page [45].
"Dorcas," said Dr. Moses, looking up, with his jackknife in the air, "what's a witch?"