Travels I was working in Boston when I was 14. My mother [was with me]. She closed up the place. There was nobody there. My brother was younger than I and he had asthma. He left here when he was 11 or 12 and he went to Boston to stay with some people... . So then, she just closed up the farm - she didn't sell it - and went to Boston . She worked at housework and I went to work in a home for children... . The home that I worked in, it was called the Little Wanderers' Home and it was on in Boston . It was a great big building. I often wondered if it is still there, or if they still use it. An orphanage, yes. They were all ages, but there was one whole family there. Their mother and father both died... . There was four of them: the oldest was a girl. She was 18. There was a lot of them older than I was. Then Mother came back home and I guess my brother came with her, and he tried living here and farming here. But it was impossible. He just couldn't live in this climate with asthma. So, he went then. He went away to , to Calgary in fact, for his health. In Calgary, he enlisted in the First World War. They never detected the asthma. He was in the engineering outfit. And then he got gassed. Mother and I stayed on the farm there for a while. And then my brother was home. I went to Boston then...with Belle Gillis- she was from Eldon. I was working and [Mother] and my brother were home here. And she fell downstairs and hurt her hands. And then I came home and I stayed home then. The Old School Aunt Belle was born - that's my sister-in-law - she was born in 1890, in August. Then I was born in January.... Aunt Belle and I went the first day to school together. Aunt Belle had a sister Maggie: she was Mrs. Donald Gillis down here. She was older than us by five years or so, I think. We were sitting together in the front seat. And our teacher was Tom McMillan ... , [former MP] Tom McMillan 's grandfather. He took his handkerchief out, I suppose to blow his nose or something. And a package rattled, and there was a peppermint fell on the floor. And Belle and I made a dive for it. The older sister almost fainted with shame. I don't know which of us got it or whether any of us got it. Just a novelty to see the peppermint. 200 BELFAST PEOPLE