The consummate song of this summer, 1789, was John Anderson my Jo, John, just as Auld Lang Syne and The Silver Tassie had been those of the former year.
"Robert Burns"
Principal Shairp
Tassie Plumford neither claimed nor was credited with powers of magic, but she, too, might have been called a "witch woman."
"The Law of Hemlock Mountain"
Hugh Lundsford
It even crept to her ears that "some folks" spoke of her as "the widder Spurrier" and that Tassie Plumford had chuckled, "I reckon he's done gone off an' left her fer good an' all this time.
"The Law of Hemlock Mountain"
Hugh Lundsford