-43- 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 were split 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 green-hide shoes sewed together with homemade leather laces; these were really warm in frosty weather. There were no wagons at first; a few cart'!, three or four gigs hung on wooden springs. Horses were scarce - oxen were mostly used. If a man were hurt or ill., neighbours pitched in to help - pota¬ 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 youngi Wooden buckets made by the Indians were in general use; splint brooms were also made and sold by Indians at 6 d. each. Indians lived, making their baskets, buckets,etc., below Sturdy bridge, on land given them by John Hall ; every Indian family had a birch bark canoe; they had free run of the woods and made a reasonably good living. Guardian /jl