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 "No! I have not; I never did."

"Why do you hurt these children?"

"I do not hurt them; I scorn it."

"Who do you employ, then, to do it?"

"I employ nobody."

"What creature do you employ then?"

"No creature; but I am falsely accused."

"Why did you go away muttering from Mr. Parris his door?"

"I did not mutter; but I thanked him for what he gave my child."

"Have you made no contract with the devil?"

"No! I have not."

Then Justice Hathorne requested the afflicted children all to look at her, and see if this was the one that hurt them; and they all did look, and said she was one of them that did hurt them.

Then the children were all tormented, and Hathorne recommenced:

"Sarah Good, do you not see now what you have done? Why do you not tell the truth? Why do you thus torment these poor children?"

"I do not torment them."