244 Old Stories
were those who affirmed that its features bore a very close resemblance to those of Granny Bates.
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At last, on one of the nights when a party was trying to drive out the witches, this old cat was seen to go through a closed garret
window, glass and all, without breaking a pane. People who saw it said that this was no other than Granny Bates in the form of a black cat. But it was never settled who the witch really was, and some had suspicions of a servant-girl who was working in the family. It was a good while before the excitement died out; and for a long time after, when anything strange happened in the community, people would say, “ Well, that’s the Wilbur witches.”
