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 astonished, being perfectly acquainted with its former shortness. Her hair was so much increased beyond its former bulk that she could not conveniently put on her cap, which induced her to cut off six or eight inches of the miraculous lock.

The same day she was seized with a severe sickness, which constrained her to take to her bed and induced her to to exclaim thus to Mrs Johnson and some of her neighbours, “The Lord wrought a miracle for me in causing my hair to grow so suddenly; but I have cut it off and regarded not the operation of his hands and now he has visited and in judgment afflicted me. O Lord! if thou wilt once more cause it to grow I will keep it as a token of thy mercy as long as I live!” The next morning she found the pain in her head entirely gone, together with that in her stomach and bowels before mentioned. On examining her hair, she found it had once more grown eight or ten inches! Since that time her bodily strength had been so amazingly increased, that she solemnly assured me, “She found her health and vigour nearly equal to what she