-29- Children were often run over and 'badly injured "by horses and sleighs j and as country people with their loads very rarely used sleigh bells9 a law had to he passed"insisting that every one who drove a horse and sleigh through the Town must have a hell attachedo The only good promenade in those days was the Queen's Wharf, and ladies were often seen, talcing a constitutional there in the early mornings The Fanning garden was a lovely spot in Old Charlott Town. The whole block between Great George and on which the first Y »M»CcAe and (old) Sion Church were sub¬ sequently built, belonged to Mrs* and Miss Fanning , Their dwelling was a two-story house, with a large porch in front, reaching to the second story• It was on the corner of Great George and , facing on , and stoo* in about eight or ten feet from the corner, with a low rail¬ ing around it. Shrubs and flowers were placed inside the railing. The stable was on the corner later occupied by the1 Bank of Nova Scotia, and later the Dominion Bank. Bverythin, about the house and grounds was beautifully kept, and the perfume from the shrubs and fruit trees were delightful. Not any of these fine old trees are now standing. There was one in Dr. MacLeod 's grounds until the summer of 1898, whose large trunk and gnarled branches showed its antiquity! but it, too, is gone and there is nothing now remaining of the lovely old garden. The late Judge Young claimed he brought the first willow trees to Charlotte Town , Be that as it may a large willow grew at the northeast corner of the Fanning garden; it branched far into . The ground wai often very wet under it. That tree was the first one remove' after the garden was divided into lots; and the first house built on the old garden site was erected upon that corner. In the summer of 1847 the Fanning house was destroyed by fin Miss Fanning with her sister Mrs. Cumberland and Captain Cumberland (who lived at Warren Farm , across the Harbour) left for England soon after the house was burned. The sta¬ ble, in its coat of lavender paint, stood as a monument for many years after. The Fannings had land in other parts of the townj they owned a large piece on the corner of Prince and Fitzroy Streets, where the Baptist Church stands. They had fully quarter tf that block. It was called Miss Fanning 's field. Sometime in the seventies it was claimed by a descendant of General Fanning 's living in the United States, and was sold by him. That property which is now the Kensington shooting range and Exhibition grounds, belonged to the Fannings; it had in the forties, pretty groves and stumps of trees througl