Page 286 - Adventures in shadow-land

"Y o u are out of your mind, Goody," said Lucy

in her dream; “ but such talk as that is not safe,
for there are those in town who are silly enough to

believe witch stories, and you might get yourself
into trouble.1’

,f Silly, are they!" cried Goody Cobb, growing
angry. “ But never mind. Just let me have your

name, and we shall see what we shall see. Look
at the pretty necklace I will give y o u / ’ and she

drew from her pocket a chain of shining green
stones and held it up before the girl's eyes.

,f I will have nothing to say to you or your

gifts," said Lucy, steadily. “ Pass on your way,
Goody, and leave me alone,"
“ So you think yourself too good for me 1" said

the witch in a rage. ‘'L et me tell you that my

family is as good as yours, and better. My grand­
father was a minister— ay, and a noted one— while
yours was selling clams round the streets/’

It was a very odd thing that while Goody Cobb

had become a witch, renounced her baptism and
sold herself to the enemy of mankind, she was yet
very proud of the eminent divine, her’grandfather.

“ T il be the death of you! I’ll stick pins in

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