The Mowing – Devil
Or, Strange NEWS out of
Hartford – shire

Being a True Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaining
with a Poor Mower, about the Cutting down Three Half
Acres of Oats: upon the Mower’s asking too much, the Farmer
swore That the Devil should Mow it rather than He.
And so it fell out, that very Night, the Crop of Oat
shew’d as if it had been all of a flame: but next Morning
appear’d so neatly mow’d by the Devil or some Infernal Spirit,
that no Mortal Man was able to do the like.
Also, How the said Oats ly now in the Field, and the Owner
has not Power to fetch them away.

Liscensed, August 22nd, 1678.