Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four weeks Bet's mother and neighbors frantically scoured the countryside, advertised in the papers, even appealed to the local conjuror (a frightening man who wore a full-bottomed black wig backwards, peering through its curls like a sheepdog). Then, on the evening of Jan. 29, Bet appeared at her mother's door, half-naked, numb with cold, her face swollen and bloated, her hair matted. The neighbors listened aghast to her pitiful tale. "I have been almost starved to death," she quavered. "I have had nothing but bread and water since New Year...
...Gypsy Woman. Mother Wells confronted Elizabeth. "Madam." she demanded, "do you know me?" "No," said Elizabeth, "I don't know that I've ever seen you before." But then, as the posse stood flabbergasted, Bet turned to the gypsy. "It was that old woman," she said, "that cut my stays...
Pamphlets and treatises poured from the printers. Dubious facts in her story were endlessly recalled and debated. Justice Henry Fielding (author of Tom Jones and presiding justice at Bet's first hearing) wrote passionately: "Elizabeth Canning is a poor, honest, innocent, simple soul, and the most unhappy and most injured of all human beings...
Some hinted that Bet Canning was wrote...
...regatta will start at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with a large attendance predicted. The 'Cliffedwellers have bet their shirts on the race and word comes from the Harvard camp that the Crimson boys are just nasty enough to collect...