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The youngest, when he got his share, thought to himself "What comes with sin goes with sorrow," and he resolved to submit his money to the water-ordeal, thinking that the ill-got money would sink to the bottom, and what was honestly acquired swim on the top. He accordingly cast all his money into the water, and only one solitary farthing swam.
The other is their fleeting on the water. The water-ordeal will come presently, but the insensibility of the mark might be at once attested." "Yeigh, that con soon be tried," cried Jem, with a savage laugh. And taking a pin from his sleeve, the ruffian plunged it deeply into the poor creature's flesh.
Set this good hint of Cotton Mather against that letter of his to John Richards, recommending the search after witch-marks, and the application of the water-ordeal, which means throw your grandmother into the water, if she has a mole on her arm; if she swims, she is a witch and must be hanged; if she sinks, the Lord have mercy on her soul!
In this way he was dragged out; and as he crept up the bank, with the wet pouring from his apparel, which now clung tightly to his lathy limbs, he was greeted by the jeers of Nicholas. "How like you the water-ordeal eh, Master Attorney? No occasion for a second trial, I think.
He hardly paid any attention while Cleary showed the modest tattoo-marks on his arms, and Colonel James exhibited equally insignificant symbols on his, for he, too, had been tattooed in his youth. He was too much engrossed in Sam's red hair and his variegated cuticle. "Here is the picture of the water-ordeal which you forgot to look at," said Cleary, as he collected the photographs.
Set this good hint of Cotton Mather against that letter of his to John Richards, recommending the search after witch-marks, and the application of the water-ordeal, which means throw your grandmother into the water, if she has a mole on her arm; if she swims, she is a witch and must be hanged; if she sinks, the Lord have mercy on her soul!
As regards the water-ordeal, the same trouble was not taken. It was a trial only for the poor and humble, and, whether they sank or swam, was thought of very little consequence.
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