Nancy Fox, _an old serving-woman in Giles Corey's house._
_Afflicted Girls, Constables, Marshal, People of Salem Village,
Messengers, etc._




Act I.


Scene I.--_Salem Village. Living-room in_ Giles Corey's _house._
Olive Corey _is spinning._ Nancy Fox, _the old servant, sits in the
fireplace paring apples. Little_ Phoebe Morse, _on a stool beside
her, is knitting a stocking._

_Phoebe_ (_starting_). What is that? Oh, Olive, what is that?

_Nancy._ Yes, what is that? Massy, what a clatter!

_Olive_ (_spinning_). I heard naught. Be not so foolish, child. And
you, Nancy, be of a surety old enough to know better.

_Nancy._ I trow there was a clatter in the chimbly. There 'tis
again! Massy, what a screech!

_Phoebe_ (_running to_ Olive _and clinging to her_). Oh, Olive, what
is it? what is it? Don't let it catch me. Oh, Olive!

_Olive._ I tell you 'twas naught.