The Humours of Eutopia (Volume 2); A Tale of Colonial Times

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1828 Excerpt: ... by the stars. And such a change did he work upon her! She was another thing entirely! Nothing but magic and witchcraft could have made such a difference in my child. And the accused went on from one thing to another. And finding me opposed to his designs upon her, he and the evil one together, (if they be not the same.) began to visit my house at night with the most awful noises, and shake it to its very foundations. Sent his imps into my room: I could feel my bed lifted up under me in the middle of the night: and something would drag off the clothes, and run over the bed, and make a dreadful scratching about the room. And one night I scattered ashes over the floor, and in the morning there were the tracks of some horrible thing about the room, and my bible was knocked off the mantle-piece one night and fell open at the third chapter of St. Mark. And I had the most frightful dreams--0! if he is not a witch, and a wizard, and a consulter of times" "Ah! well--that will do, Mrs. Blaxton," interrupted the magistrate, and the prisoner's counsel immediately followed--"Yes, may it please your worship:--I shall decidedly object to the witness's arguing the case"--and he was going on to enlarge upon the distinction between a witness and an advocate, when the court stopped him and called the next witness--Goodman Timothy Tangent, who living in the vicinity of the school-house, was supposed to be fraught with testimony against the accused. But, when called to be sworn, Mr. Tangent, instead of obeying the summons, kept his place, and commenced wagging forth of his head the following answer:--"Mr. Justice Slygrave knows me to be a man that meddles with no man's business--he knows me to be a man that interferes with no man's business--he" "Yes--but Mr. Tangent, it is nec...