The old Lady, who, upon the Maid _Betty_'s Notion of the Candles burning blue, had her Head just full of that old _Chimney-Corner Story_, the Candles _burn blue when the Spirits are in the Room_, heard the Footman Say the Word _Devil_, but heard nothing else of what he said; upon this she rises up in a terrible Fright, and cries out that the Footman said the _Devil was in the Room_; as she was, indeed, frighted out of her Wits, she frighted the Ladies most terribly, and they all starting up together, down goes the Card Table, and put the Wax-Candles out. Mrs. _Betty_, that had frighted them all, runs to the Sconce next the Chimney, but that having a long Snuff, she cried out it burnt blue too, and she durst not touch it; in short, tho' there were three Candles left still burning in the Room, yet the Ladies we're all so frighted, that they and the Maids too run out of the Parlour screaming like mad Folks. The Master in a Rage kick'd his first Man out of the Room, and the second Man was run out to avoid, as I said before, the like, so that no Servant was to be had, but all was in Confusion. The two other Gentlemen, who were sitting at the first Table, kept their Seats composed and easy enough, only concern'd to see all the House in such a fright; it was true, they said, the Candles burnt dim and very oddly, but they could not perceive they _burnt blue_, except one of those over the Chimney, and that on the Table, which was relighted after the Fellow had snufft it out. However, the Maid, the old Lady and the Footman that pull'd down the Sconce, all insist that the Candles _burnt blue_, and all pretend that the Devil was certainly in the Room, and was the Occasion of it; and they now came to me with the Story, to desire my Opinion of it. This put me upon Enquiry into the Notion of Candles _burning blue_ when Spirits are in a Room, which upon all the Search into Things, that I am able to make, amounts to no more than this; that upon any extraordinary Emission of sulphureous or of nitrous Particles, either in a close Room, or in any not very open Place, if the Quantity be great, a Candle or Lamp, or any such little Blaze of Fire will seem to be, or to _burn blue_; and if then they can prove that any such Effluvia attends or is emitted from a Spirit, then when SATAN is at Hand it may be so. But then 'tis begging the Question grossly, because no Man can assure us that the Devil has any sulphureous Particles about him.