Her visitor was the same person on these two different occasions, which were more than six weeks apart, and in her various clairvoyant excursions and feats he was frequently, if not always, her attendant. "_Q._ What other likenesses besides a man hath appeared unto you? _A._ Sometimes like a hog--sometimes like a great black dog--four times." "The man" probably assumed or presented those brutish forms. A frequent teaching of spirit visitants is, that they "can assume any _form_ which the occasion requires;" they also have often given the impression that they cannot assume _hues_ brighter than inherently pertain to their own intellectual and moral conditions, but of this we have yet no conclusive information. "_Q._ But what did they say unto you? _A._ They told me serve him, and that was a good way. That was the black dog. I told him I was afraid. He told me he would be worse then to me." Her dog could talk. She and the court obviously understood the dog to be the same being, essentially, as the "one like a man." For,-- "_Q._ What did you say to him, then, after that? _A._ I answer I will serve you no longer. He told me he would do me hurt then." Can any one doubt that she conceived herself to be speaking to the same being, though in dog form, that she had yielded to before in form like a man? There is no indication that she had _previously_ served a dog, and yet she says to this one, I will serve you _no longer_. "_Q._ What other creatures have you seen? _A._ A bird. _Q._ What bird? _A._ A little yellow bird. _Q._ Where does it keep? _A._ With the man, who hath pretty things more besides. _Q._ What other pretty things? _A._ He hath not showed them unto me, but he said he would show them to me to-morrow, and told me if I would serve him, I should have the bird. _Q._ What other creatures did you see? _A._ I saw two cats, one red, another black, as big as a little dog. _Q._ What did these cats do? _A._ I don't know. I have seen them two times. _Q._ What did they say? _A._ They say serve them. _Q._ When did you see them? _A._ I saw them last night. _Q._ Did they do any hurt to you or threaten you? _A._ They did scratch me. _Q._ When? _A._ After prayer; and scratched me because I would not serve her. And when they went away _I could not see_, but they stood by the fire. _Q._ What service do they expect from you? _A._ They say more hurt to the children. _Q._ How did you pinch them when you hurt them? _A._ The other pull me and haul me to pinch the child, and I am very sorry for it."