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I will go to Betty Fisher to-day ; and she 

 will tell me the thief." 



But, behold ! without my going to Betty, 

 the pig was at my house before I returned. 

 My family perceived the flail not to be go- 

 ing: and the man had slipt out of the barn, 

 to fetch the pig : so that I have just cause 

 to say that a conjuror is before all the laws 

 in America to give a man his right ; for all 

 their law would not have brought back my 

 pig ; but the conjuror effected it without 

 trouble. It is evident that such criminals 

 as I have described stand in greater awe of 

 the devil than of the Almighty ; and, if 

 they pray to or worship either, it is, in ef- 

 fect, the former ; since the woman, as I 

 have already mentioned, assures them the 

 devil will torment them : and I doubt not 

 its being so ; but it is their own devil. 



The credulity of many individuals in 

 other occurrences appeared to me equally 

 surprising. I had two joiners at work at 

 Orange-Hill, when there came a man into 

 the place where they were working, who 



