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 "Why do you hurt these children?"

"I do not hurt them."

"Who do you employ, then, to hurt them?"

"I employ nobody."

"What familiarity have you with Sarah Good?"

"None. I have not seen her for these two years."

"Where did you see her then?"

"One day, going to town."

"What communication had you with her?"

"I had only, 'How do you do?' or so. I do not know her by name."

"What did you call her then?"

Osburn made a stand at that, but at last she said she called her "Sarah."

"Sarah Good saith it was you that hurt the children."

"I do not know that the devil goes about in my likeness to do any hurt."

The foregoing shows the unfairness of the course taken by the court, and the evident intention to confuse the prisoners, and endeavor to entangle them into a contradiction in their answers.