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days. The children.were sent out to gather hemlock bark to make hot coals for the cover; ordinarily soft wood was burn- ed. Pitch pine was also carefully gathered to burn at nights for light; the pitch pine blocks weresplit into long splits to burn instead of tallow candles; the hearthstone usually had a receptacle for these pine splits; the women did sewing, knitting, and reading by this light.

All food was grown at home; buckwheat flour, oat- meal and a little wheat flour made the bread. There was plenty of potatoes and fish - herring, mackerel, lobster, trout and smelts — and one could fish any day of the year without a license. Women made summer hats from braided wheat straw, and in the lumber woods men used greenphide shoes sewed together with homemade leather laces; these were really warm in frosty weather. There were no wagons at first; a few carts, three or four gigs hung on wooden springs. Horses were scarce - oxen were mostly used. If a man were hurt or ill9 neighbours pitched in to help - potap toes were dug and picked — someone gave a week's ploughing, someone else helped with the threshing, and there was noth— ing to pay. Women milked the cows, churned the cream into sweet clean butter; gathered the harvest, picked and sorted the potato crop; carded sheep's wool, spun and wove it into

men's and women‘s wear, made it up and dressed their families

with it. lb wonder they died young! Wooden buckets made by the Indians were in general use; splint brooms wexaalso

made and sold by Indians at 6 d. each. Indians lived, making a

their baskets, buckets,etc., below Sturdy bridge, on land

given them by John Hall; every Indian family had a birch bark Q

canoe; they had free run of the woods and made a reasonably good living. Guardian /31