"What did it say to you?—The black dog said, 'Serve me;' but I said, 'I am afraid.' He said, if I did not, he would do worse to me. "What did you say to it?—I will serve you no longer. Then he said he would hurt me; and then he looks like a man, and threatens to hurt me. (She said that this man had a yellow-bird that kept with him.) And he told me he had more pretty things that he would give me, if I would serve him. "What were these pretty things?—He did not show me them. "What else have you seen?—Two cats; a red cat, and a black cat. "What did they say to you?—They said, 'Serve me.' "When did you see them?—Last night; and they said, 'Serve me;' but I said I would not. "What service?—She said, hurt the children.[ii.25] "Did you not pinch Elizabeth Hubbard this morning?—The man brought her to me, and made pinch her. "Why did you go to Thomas Putnam's last night, and hurt his child?—They pull and haul me, and make go. "And what would they have you do?—Kill her with a knife. "(Lieutenant Fuller and others said at this time, when the child saw these persons, and was tormented by them, that she did complain of a knife,—that they would have her cut her head off with a knife.) "How did you go?—We ride upon sticks, and are there presently. "Do you go through the trees or over them?—We see nothing, but are there presently. "Why did you not tell your master?—I was afraid: they said they would cut off my head if I told. "Would you not have hurt others, if you could?—They said they would hurt others, but they could not. "What attendants hath Sarah Good?—A yellow-bird, and she would have given me one. "What meat did she give it?—It did suck her between her fingers. "Did you not hurt Mr. Curren's child?—Goody Good and Goody Osburn told that they did hurt Mr. Curren's child, and would have had me hurt him too; but I did not. "What hath Sarah Osburn?—Yesterday she had a thing with a head like a woman, with two legs and wings. "(Abigail Williams, that lives with her uncle Mr. Parris, said that she did see the same creature, and it turned into the shape of Goodie Osburn.) "What else have you seen with Osburn?—Another thing, hairy: it goes upright like a man, it hath only two legs.[ii.26] "Did you not see Sarah Good upon Elizabeth Hubbard, last Saturday?—I did see her set a wolf upon her to afflict her. "(The persons with this maid did say that she did complain of a wolf. She further said that she saw a cat with Good at another time.) "What clothes doth the man go in?—He goes in black clothes; a tall man, with white hair, I think. "How doth the woman go?—In a white hood, and a black hood with a top-knot. "Do you see who it is that torments these children now?—Yes: it is Goody Good; she hurts them in her own shape. "Who is it that hurts them now?—I am blind now: I cannot see. "Written by Ezekiel Cheever. "Salem Village, March the 1st, 1692."