I was going down here to see if any of the neighbours at the shop saw Crone in any strange company last night.

Ah, Benedicite, replied the crone; Then cause of just complaining have you none.

" "Lord help us!" cried the crone, "I hope it will spare me.

"This lady wants you to show her the towers," explained the old crone with a cunning wink at the girl.

for I renounce thy bed: The queen may take the forfeit of my head, Ere any of my race so foul a crone shall wed. Both heard, the judge pronounced against the knight; So was he married in his own despite; And all day after hid him as an owl, Not able to sustain a sight so foul.

He held the old crone under the pump, gave her an emetic, broke her bottle, and ordered her to help him care for the girl.

In the kitchen, the only other room, huddled an old crone, brown and gnarled like an old apple.

"It was them killed Crone," she answered in a queer dry voice.

"Unless it is that he's now inclining to the theory of the police that Phillips was murdered by some man or men who followed him from Peebles, and that the same man or men murdered Crone.

"What's the good o' namin' him, and allus talkin' about him, when yer don't never know as he ar'n't byside ye?" "I'll devil yer!" shrieked the crone, through a half-eaten tomato.

A few months had scarcely elapsed, when the anxious mother spied an old crone moving about in the court-yard; their eyes happening to meet, Zebah screamed and fell into a swoon.

The deacon came in at the door, just as the widow had passed through it, on her way to visit another crone, who lived hard by, and with whom she was in the constant habit of consulting.

We ourselves, but a few days back, personally witnessed an old crone, the wife of a small, and apparently poor farmer, in a wild pastoral district, bring no less than three hundred sovereigns in a bag to a neighbouring attorney, to be placed by him in security: her treasure having accumulated till she was afraid to keep it longer at home.

The blooming Miss Wr (you remember Sally Wr) called upon us yesterday, an aged crone.

And where upon a sculptured stone The ruined arch beside, A hoary, bronzed, and wrinkled crone The twirling distaff plied, Love with exalted Reason fraught In Plato's accents came, And Truth by Paul sublimely taught Relumed her virgin flame.

A belief in witches is quite prevalent, and there is scarcely a village in Behar that does not contain some withered old crone, reputed and firmly believed to be a witch.