from the mill, with continued stroking of the part affected: when our author thus proceeds:]
On this, my mother demanded of her, how she came to the knowledge of her fall? She [who had been walking at the time in the gardens and orchard till the old woman came from the mill] made answer, That half a dozen persons told her of it. That, replied my mother, could not be, for there was none came by at that time but my neighbour, who brought me home. Ann answers again, That that was truth, and it was true that half a dozen persons told her so: For, said she, you know I went out of the house into the gardens and orchard, very unwillingly, and now I will tell you the truth of all matters and things which have befallen me.
"You know, that this my sickness and fits came very suddenly upon me, which brought me very low and weak, and have made me very simple. Now the cause of my sickness was this: I was, one day, knitting of stockings in the arbour in the garden, and there came over the garden-hedge, of a sudden, six small people, all in green clothes, which put me into such a fright, that was the cause of my great sickness and they continue their appearance to me, never less than two at a time, nor never more than eight: they always appear
