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answered no.
    [Hathorne]: Why do you hurt these children?
    [Sarah Good]: I do not hurt them. I scorn it.
    [Hathorne]: Who do you employ, then, to do it?
    [Sarah Good]: I employ no body.
    [Hathorne]: What creature 3 do you employ then?
    [Sarah Good]: No creature, but I am falsely accused.
    [Hathorne]: Why did you go away muttering from Mr. Paris, his house?
    [Sarah Good]: I did not mutter, but I thanked him for what he gave my child. 4
    [Hathorne]: Have you made no contract with the Devil?
    [Sarah Good]: No.
    [Hathorne]: Desire the children all of them to look upon her and see if this were the person that hurt them?
    And so they all did look upon her and said this was one of the persons that did torment them. Presently they were all tormented
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    [Hathorne]: Sarah Good, do you not see now what you have done? Why do you not tell us the truth? Why do you thus torment these poor children?
    [Sarah Good]: I do not torment them.
    [Hathorne]: [illegible] Who do you employ, then?
    [Sarah Good]: I employ nobody. I scorn it.
    [Hathorne]: How came they thus tormented?
    [Sarah Good]: What do I know? You bring others here and now you charge me with it.
    [Hathorne]: Why? Who was it?
    [Sarah Good]: I do not know but it was some you brought into the meetinghouse with you.
    [Hathorne]: You were brought into the meetinghouse.
    [Sarah Good]: But you brought in two more.
    [Hathorne]: Who was it, then, that tormented the children?
    [Sarah Good]: It was Osburn.
    [Hathorne]: What is it that you say when you go muttering away from persons’ houses?
    [Sarah Good]: If I must tell I will tell.
    [Hathorne]: Do tell us then.
    [Sarah Good]: If I must tell I will tell. It is the commandments, I may say, my commandments, I hope.
    [Hathorne]: What commandment is it?
    [Sarah Good]: If I must tell you I will tell. It is a psalm.
    [Hathorne]: What psalm?
    After a long time she [Sarah Good] muttered over some part of a psalm.
    [Hathorne]: Who do you serve?
    [Sarah Good]: I serve God.
    [Hathorne]: What God do you serve?
    [Sarah Good]: The God that made heaven and earth.
    Though she was not willing to mention the word God, her answers were in [a] very wicked, spiteful manner reflecting and retorting against the authority with base and abusive words and many lies she was taken in.
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It was here said that her husband had said that he was afraid that she either was a witch or would be one very quickly. The worsh
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Mr. Harthon
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asked him his re[scored out] reason why he said so of her, whether he had ever seen anything by her and he answered, no, not in this nature. But it was her bad carriage to him and indeed, said he, I may say with tears that she is an enemy to all good.
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    Sarah Osburn, her examination
    [Hathorne]: What evil spirit have you familiarity with?
    [Sarah Osburn]: None.
    [Hathorne]: Have you made no contract with the Devil?
    [Sarah Osburn]: I no I never saw the Devil in my life.
    [Hathorne]: Why do you hurt these children?
    [Sarah Osburn]: I do not hurt them.
    [Hathorne]: Who do you employ then to hurt them?
    [Sarah Osburn]: I employ nobody.
    [Hathorne]: What familiarity have you with Sarah Good?
    [Sarah Osburn]: None. I have not seen her these 2 years.
    [Hathorne]: Where did you see her then?
    [Sarah Osburn]: One day agoing to town.
    [Hathorne]: What communications had you with her?
    [Sarah Osburm]: I had none, only how do you do or so. I did not know her by name.
    [Hathorne]: What did you call her then?
    Osburn made a pa [scored out] stand at that at last said she called her Sarah.
    [Hathorne]: Sarah Good saith that it was you that hurt the children.
    [Sarah Osburn]: I do not know that the Devil goes about in my likeness to do any hurt. 10
    Mr. Harthon desired all these children to stand up and look upon her and see if they did know her, which they all did and every one of them said that she [scored out] this was one of the women that did afflict them and that they had constantly seen her in [the] very habit that she was now in.
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The evidence