. called animal, bycause it is the first instrument of the soule, which the Latins call animam .”

The burnings continued all day.

At one time Joan invented other names for her. 'Matilda' brought to mind dingy curtains, gray tent flaps, a slack-skinned old woman. How about Sharon? Lilliane? Elizabeth? Then, Joan didn't know how, the name Matilda became transformed. It started shining like silver. The il in it was silver. But not metallic. In Joan's mind the name gleamed now like a fold of satin.

The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.