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Well, poor Jollie Longtail shivered and shook, and tried to get away from that boy, but he couldn’t, and then the boy began tying a knot in the mousie’s tail, so he could fasten Jollie to the clothes line in the yard. “Oh, this is terrible!” cried Bawly, and he forgot all about the ball that was lying in the grass close beside him. “How sorry I am for poor Jollie,” thought Bawly.
At least, it seems not without significance that neither Oliver Heywood nor Richard Frankland nor any other of the Dissenters was sure enough of his ground to support Jollie in the controversy into which he had been led.
No-Tail, the frog lady, to Bully and Bawly one day, as she put on her best bonnet and shawl and started out, “I hope you will be good while I am away.” “Where are you going, mamma?” asked Bully. “I am going over to call on Mrs. Longtail, the mouse,” replied Mrs. No-Tail. “She is the mother of the mice children, Jollie and Jillie Longtail, you know, and she has been ill with mouse-trap fever.
The proofs of vol. i. came so thick in yesterday that much was not done. But I began to be hard at work to-day, and must not gurnalise much. Mr. Jollie, who is to be my trustee, in conjunction with Gibson, came to see me: a, pleasant and good-humoured man, and has high reputation as a man of business.
See above, ch. XIII, note 10. Jollie disclaimed the sole responsibility for it. See his Vindication, 7. Taylor in The Surey Impostor assumes that Carrington wrote The Surey Demoniack; see e. g. p. 21. The Surey Imposter, being an answer to a late Fanatical Pamphlet, entituled The Surey Demoniack. By Zachary Taylor. London, 1697.
“There’s one knot!” cried the boy as he made it. “Now for another!” Poor Jollie squirmed and wiggled, but he couldn’t get away. “Now for the last knot, and then I’ll tie you on the clothes line,” spoke the boy, twisting Jollie’s tail very hard. “Oh, if he ever gets tied on the clothes line that will be the last of him!” thought Bawly. “I wonder how I can save him?”
It is not worth while to give any critical appraisement of these pamphlets. They were all controversial and all dealt with the case of Richard Dugdale. Zachary Taylor had the best of it. The Puritan clergymen who backed up Thomas Jollie in his claims seem gradually to have withdrawn their support.
Then the boy once more started to tie Jollie to the line. “Bungo!” went a bean on his left ear, hitting him quite hard. “Stop that!” the boy cried, winking his eyes very fast. “Cracko!” went a bean on his right ear, for Bawly was blowing them very fast now.
More than a dozen of the dissenting preachers, among them Richard Frankland, Oliver Heywood, and other well known Puritan leaders in northern England, had lent their support to Thomas Jollie, who had taken the leading part in the praying and fasting.
It was, however, rewritten and appeared in 1697 as The Surey Demoniack, or an Account of Strange and Dreadful Actings in and about the Body of Richard Dugdale. The preface was signed by six ministers, including those already named; but the book was probably written by Thomas Jollie and John Carrington.
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