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THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH The Goody Cole who figures in this poem and The Changeling as Eunice Cole, who for a quarter of a century or more was feared, persecuted, and hated as the witch of Hampton.

She lived alone in a hovel a little distant from the spot where the Hampton Academy now stands, and there she died, unattended.

When her death was discovered, she was hastily covered up in the earth near by, and a stake driven through her body, to exorcise the evil spirit.