Our city had another cranky law. If a man took a measly pig into market, he was fined and his pig taken from him and burned on the Square, and he had to pay for the wood to burn it. THE TENANT LEAGUE I remember our Tenant League. In Lot twenty-nine, and Wiltshire united into one army to fight the landlords against paying any more rent. Horns and pitchforks were the weapons to drive the con¬ stables and sheriffs off their premises. I saw a small army marching from Hampton to the , up to Kelly's Cross, then to Duns- ford's mill with Cutcliffe Band. Charlie Dunsford was in the band, and I think he is the only one alive today of that band. Captain Clow had another army, two hundred strong. He marched them into town, defying the law of the Island. He was taken prisoner, and I think put in jail. His army was scattered and sent ba"k to the country. Our governor then sent to Halifax for a small army of soldiers. came at once with a company of Red Coats. They had to sleep in canvas tents. It was in the spring of the year, as I was in town and I went down to the drill shed to see them — all good-looking men, dressed in red coats. I saw one of them marching up and down on duty with his rifle and bayonet on his back, glittering in the sun. Well, we had to feed them and build houses for them in the coming winter. It cost the Island a lot of money, and no good came out of it. "Hien our Island was given away to Canada , and Canada bought Crapaud lot out from our landlady and our farmers were free of rent. But now our taxes are higher than our rent, and we had to pay one dollar and forty- five cents an acre ourselves to help the government to buy it out. LAUNCHING Well I remember my boyhood days in Oanaud. I liked to ^e on the seashore and the river. I remember going to the first launfh, which was on our river, on the church ground, by Captain TurnbuH . It ^as a vessel built by James Collet and brothers. She was masted ^^ had no sails. She just got off into the river as we got down. They ha 1 a "^ok- house built, and roasted a little nig f°r thei* launch dinner. r""1— they pulled their vessel down to Crapaud wha^f. A little boat was left at the c&ok-houpe pi T1^ went in f - good sail, five of us, and we had only oup pole to s^er pur ^oat wi" an 1 'he high tide was running out very strong. It was onr first boa^w and as we had no power to land the boat ^ th<> sWo ---« c^ve onr*"1*.....■'s lost. Mark Best pulled off his Snnrlav shoe« a*^ «+ockings a*^ ' wd out of the boat up to his armpits in water, and W+ hjs shoes on ^° stern of the boat. George Percival also made a deswrate spring o"A ~-' half upset the boat, and Mark's shoes went overboard, and he ha^ +~ ~~ hoMie barefooted. We three landed in Snow's *~Wk. wV^-o — tied ut> n»- '—' ind got home about four o'clock, safe r^ sour>H >tow the las+ «7~« " saw Captain Collet was at Hall's Wha~f wfcotv> v- -~~ hKn? i- - ' of a load of oatmeal in his vessel for to1-ti S +nrdy *«*• *>>e QaiTit Jo1— - -^-t I was on board of her and s*w h<"* 1°™~ ^ -1 "" ""-1 sail 'w~ " '"~v> out to the harbor. That was the l««+ * W T <•""' the™, a"-1 n ' ^e very next fall, the vessel and all hand's were lo?<- *>t " Pa. and ~T ° new them no more. tv,6 poyt l^nn^Tn was on Paln^o^'s ^n™ where the coal sbc^ is now. I saw the vessel getting her first dit>, and T w?r ;^ hw. I r'