Chapter I: Front Matter

Ye Lyttle Salem Maide

“_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

Chapter Page

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

Ye Lyttle Salem Maide