Excerpt 2:
Not wishing to be considered as a prophet of evil omen, Jane kept her own counsel in regard to this significant discovery. But later, after the
child was several days cd, she filled a small vial with water in which the Infant had been washed, and took it to a certain wise old black
woman, who lived on the farther edge of the town and was well known to be versed in witchcraft and conjuration.
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Excerpt 3:
"Now look a-hyuh, Doctuh Price," returned the old woman in an unctuous (plous) whisper, "you don' wanter come talkin' none er yo'
foolishness 'bout my not takin' keer er Mis' 'livy. She never would 'a' sald sech a thing!"
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