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In a cradle fashioned from a
hewn log, slept a fairy-faced
rough
child. One tiny hand, more sender and shape-
ly than a baby's hand should be, lay
lightly ever the coarse coverlet On
her face rested that ineffable calm and
innocent peace which comes only to
sleeping children and to angels.
A kitten sprang into the cradle and
curled itself in a fluffy, black ball on
the pillow beside the child's fair head;
but the baby's sleep was undisturbed.
After a while a young woman, clad
in homespun severely plain, entered
the room through a door from whence
came the sound of a spinning wheel.
She glanced solicitlously toward the
cradle and smiled softly when she saw
the fluffy blak kitten nestled close to
the white, pure baby face.
Without, a stern looking man in
somber garb was passing the house.
The woman noticed him through the
open window and beckoned to him. He
came and stood by the window leaning
against the wall the heavy matchlock
that he carried.
"I have something to show thee,
neighbor Jonas," said the young moth
er. "See, is it not a pretty sight?"
She pointed to the cradled child and
the nestling kitten.
The gloomy seriousness of the man's
face was uncbangrd.
"I like it not, friend Hannah," he
said. "It bodes no good to the child
that a (witchery kit come so to her.
It is an ill omen."
"Fie! For shame, neighbor! Thou
art always seeing ill omrns. As if a
kitten could bewitch a sleeping child!
I say it is a pretty sight, though thou
canst see naugh but ill in it"
"It hath proven an ill sign afore
time," returned the man sullenly, as
he took up his gun and went away.
The woman returned to her spinning
and the black kitten lay by the head
cf the sleeping child purring at her ear.
The child was yet too young to know
her mother's speech, but she felt the
strange, wild things that the kitten
purred, though she slept, things of the
foiest and the hant and of the spirit of
the untamed ones who love night
Fcr a long time, the child slept in the
rcugh-hewn cradle with the black kit-
ten purring at her ear.
She had grown up more as the wild
children cf the forest than like a Puri
tan maiden. Her mother had died al
most before the child had learned to
knoV her, and her father had dwelt
always a little nearer the borders of
the wilderness than his less adventur
ous neighbors, who builded their homes
close beside the meeting house, whlcn
was the center of the settlement
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pie. She often spent long hours In the
forest, alone save for one companion.
Always a great black cat was with
ner. Ever since she was a baby it had
been about her her one constant play
mate. The other children of the settlement
were wont to avoid her. The minister
had once called her an "uncanny witch
child," and had preached a sermon on
the evil influence of black cats, and ever
since the mothers nad rormuaen meir
children to nlav with her. nut
she heeded this little less than a
child should. She had made
the forset her playground and the.
wild things her playmates. Sometimes
with the cat she had strayed whole
days in its solitude, and once was gone
some weeks with a band of stroll
ing Indians. That was after her
father died, and she -was left In the
care of an ancient grand-dame.
"She is an ill child' said Jonas
Hcokrr. "The devil hath a hold on
her."
"She must, have religious care and
instruction as beseemeth a Christian,
Goodman Hooker," the minister re
turned. "And the black cat should be
slain, being a disguise of the devil
wcrking mjECnjef jn our midst."
After that she was taken into the care
of Jonas, who was the town constable.
But the black cat disappeared so that
no one. was able to find it, whereupon
all were agreed that it was assuredly
the devil.
The girl little liked the harsh in
structions of the constable's wife and
the minister's tiresome catechism. She
ran away Into the forest and with her
was the black cat Goodman Brans
come saw thrm wandering in the woods
and discharged his matchlock at the
cat. The bullet, he swore, passed
through Its body, but injured it not at
all; and when he sought to catch them,
girl and cat vanished as if by magic.
It was shortly after this that there
came rumors of witchcraft widespread
thiough the colony. Already certain
witches had been discovered and hanged
in the tewn cf Sakm. Now several of
the townspeople were ill of a fever
when thesa rumors came, and the min
ister believed them bewitched. So
quest was made thereabouts for witches
and the ancient grand-dame n'ear the
fcres:s edge was brought by certain
gedly tenures to confession of witch
ery, whereupen she was executed.
But evils continued unallayed, in the
settlement. A fire destroyed the meet
ing house, and a daughter of Goodman
Branscome, who had shot at the cat in
the forest, died of the fever. After
that there was no doubt as to who was
the witch working the ill.
And cne day she came back back
from the wilderness with the cat She
went first to the house by the forest
but the grand-dame, he- faster-mother,
was not there. Then she went to the
hcuse of Jonas Hooker, the constable.
"It is the hand of the Lord," said
Jcnas, "delivering the evil one to just
punishment
She was trird for witchcraft She
was only a child yet, and half wild. She
did not understand the charge. Nav.
she acknowledged that she well might
be a witch jf tha meant tQ oye thB
fcr(5st The jndictment was long and
Fart5culai abounding in scriptural quo-
tal5ons j accusing cne Catherine
Carewe cf wilfull neglect of God's S3rv
ice and commandments; of baneful as
sociaticn with witches and devils and
the performance of ungodly rites and
enchantments, thereby causing disease
and disaster to fall upon her towns
people; of wandering In the forest and
there conjoining with the devil in the
shape cf a black cat, and bringing
about the deatQ of a Christian ma!den
hy spp,ls and witcheries.
She was ca!y a chnd There
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Con
ncne to aaena ner. one was
dcmned to De burned.
g,. yct dld sne rea,ize ,t wheQ
brcucht from the nrison house
where the glccmy minister had vainly
labored with her for her soul's sake.
She saw the people crowding about,
silent and stern the men and the wo
men. She saw the heaped faggots and
the post where she was to be tied. Then
she trembled and cast about her wild
fcarrul glances appealing glances that
mute,y and vainly asked for ald.
She made so sound no inran or cry,
when Jonas Hooker, the constable,
bound her fast; enly in her eyes shown
that terror, that despair which one sees.
in those pf a captured wild thing.
She was lithe and slender, and her
face was rearely beautiful. Partly a
child's face, partly a woman's it was;
but en it also was an expression that
belongs seldom to a human counte
nancea strange expression born of the
wilderness and the seeing cf strange:
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