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 she saw, a thing like an Indian, all black, which did pinch her in her neck, and pulled her by the back of her head to the door of the house.

"And did you never see any thing else?" asked the examiner.

To which she replied, "No."

(Here it was said by some one in the meeting-house that she had said she would never believe that lying spirit any more.)

"What lying spirit is this? Hath the devil ever deceived you, and been false to you?"

"I do not know the devil. I never did see him."

"What lying spirit was it, then?"

"It was a voice that I thought I heard."

"And what did it propound to you?"

"That I should go no more to meeting. But I said I would go, and I did go next Sabbath-day."

"And were you never tempted any further?"

"No."

"Why did you yield thus far to the devil as never to go to meeting since?"