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cecil, who always kept a weather eye peeled for such things, now discovered an array of tables inside the main building where free slices of cake and pie, and cubes of ‘fudge were being handed out as samples of the producta of a cooking school. We tested the merit of each item three times, and had just started on stfll: another yforay when one of the ladies Fan charge recognized us as repeaters and hustled us out of the place. |

At times, in the busy seasons = planting, haying, or harvesting -- when horses couldn't be spared from the fields, and a trip to the city became necessary, we travelied on the steamer that came up to West River bridge. These excursions /infinitely preferable to the long, tédious journey by road. There was always a pleasing sense of adventure when the lines were cast off and the steamer, with a long blast of her whistle, headed down river. There was also a thrilling, slightly scary, feeling of possible danger when, under certain combinations of wind and tide con- ditions, she pitched and rolled as she crossed the area of Charlottetown harbor known as The Three Tides.

Throughout the year, countiry people went to the city on one or the other of the two market days -- Tuesday or Friday. Opinions differed as to which day was the more advantageous from the seller's point of view. one school of thought held that on Tuesday the townspeople would be in need of vegetables and other household necessities, following the weekend. The opposite view was that on Friday the shoppers would be stocking up for the coming weekend, and would therefore be a little less reluctant to part with their money. My parents leaned to the Tuesday theory.

Market days called for an early start to ensure getting a place at one