I bid ye boy put ye same
awl in ye cupboard which I saw done, and ye door shut too. When ye same
awl came down ye chimney again in our sight, and I took it up myselfe.
"Ye next day, being Saturday, stones, sticks and pieces of bricks came
down so that we could not quietly eat our breakfast. Sticks of fire came
downe also at ye same time.
"Ye same day in ye afternoon, my thread four times taken away and come
downe ye chimney againe; my awl and a gimlet wanting came down ye
chimney. Againe, my leather and my nailes, being in ye cover of a
firkin, taken away, and came downe ye chimney.
"The next, being Sunday, stones, sticks and brickbats came down ye
chimney. On Monday, Mr. Richardson [the minister,] and my brother was
there. They saw ye frame of my cow-house standing firm. I sent my boy to
drive ye fowls from my hog's trough. He went to ye cow-house, and ye
frame fell on him, he crying with ye hurt. In ye afternoon ye potts
hanging over ye fire did dash so vehemently one against another that we
did sett down one that they might not dash to pieces. I saw ye andiron
leap into ye pott and dance, and leap out, and again leap in, and leap
on a table and there abide.
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