This is one of the ugliest moments in the saga of the Canterbury Female Academy. Every sentence and word choice is poisoned by hatred, and disingenuously cloaking itself in feigned piety and self-righteousness. Consider the forthright declaration that a "determination has been formed to BREAK UP the negro school in Canterbury by some means or other" and then saying they don't approve of it! Then there is the sexism directed at Prudence Crandall for daring to be "undisturbed" in her defiance of the will of the "people" (by which they mean white people with power). But it is the intersectional violence directed at the Black students, by calling them "wenches," that best reveals the feelings of the author(s). "Wench" is a term that carries with it low-class status, intemperance, and loose sexual morals, to which this article in the Windham Advertiser adds racism. Thus I felt that the best way, at this distant remove, to turn the joke back against its cruel makers, was to represent the wench by the dogs these accusers were. Unfortunately, these dogs are cute, and the authors of these rumors - which would come true, as is being noted here directly, in the January fire against the school - were not cute. They were, in fact, morally ugly.