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9 SPECTATOR Mrs. Perkins set up the long puncheon board and the food and dishes were set upon it. She removed a large kettle and a teapot from the crane above the fire where it had been simmering all afternoon. Mrs. Brewster departed to prepare a like meal for her family. , After the family was seated and grace was said, Mercy spoke, “There was such an odd little girl started to school today. I think she is a Quaker for she is garbed as such. I befriended her for she looked so forlorn. Her name is Abigail Scott.” As they were eating a loud knock was heard at the door. “Good even’, John Perkins,” said a gruff voice. ‘‘The goal-keeper,” thought Mercy. “What does he want here?” “Your daughter is accused of witchcraft by Jonathan Endicott and must come with me to the goal until her trial which is on the twenty-first day of this month,” continued the gruff voice. John Perkins staggered back from the door with his hands to his eyes for he knew that this charge meant death to his only child and he loved her above everything else except his wife. ‘‘I am ready, Mr. White,” said Mercy, who was very pale, for she also knew what this charge meant when made by people who were crazed with superstition. Even the King of England was not above these things for he had written a book called “How to Prevent Witches From Entering Your Home.” “Good bye, Father and Mother.” She kissed them and the next minute she was gone. A few days later at the trial, a young minister, whose name was Cotton Mather was the judge. He had come from Boston just to be present at the trials of the accused. The jury was composed of men who knew Mercy, but she could expect no mercy from them for they also were victims of their superstitious age. The first witness called was Jonathan Endicott. He
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10 SPECTATOR was asked if Mercy had harmed him in anyway. “She stuck pins in me,” he sobbed and hid his face on his mother's shoulder. Another witness, an old man whom Mercy occasionly visited, asserted that she had dropped pellets into a can of milk and the milk had turned green. Mercy was so astounded at these proceedings that she began to cry. She was led back to her cell where she pray- ed for her deliverance. That evening she was told the verdict. It was death. She was to be hanged on the morning of the twenty-fifth day of December. Abigail Scott had heard the verdict. She decided to go to Boston and tell the Governor about everything that was happening in the wretched town. She slipped out of the house on the pretext of going for water. She took some food to eat and a little pallet to sleep on. Two days later a very bedraggled girl entered Boston and made her way to the Governor’s home. She knocked at the door and it was opened by Mrs. M-----------, the Gov- ernor’s wife. “What do you want, my dear?” she said as Abigail entered the house and sat down. Abigail explained why she had journeyed from Salem and then Mrs. M-------- said, “The Governor has been ill but I think he will hear you.” Abigail was taken to see the Governor. When he heard about the proceedings in Salem he became very angry; be- cause the last meeting of the General Assembly had forbidden punishment by death for witchcraft. A party started for Salem at once and reached the town on Christmas morning. Mercy stood beside the gallows listening to the prayers that were being said, when far away she saw something bright moving in the woods. She called the attention of the people to it and the next thing they knew the Governor was in their midst.
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