I travelled through Kelly's Cross and I liked it. The dear little school girls and boys would bow their knee to me as I passed by. It was the only settlement I was ever honored in by the dear little ones. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from that way. CHARLOTTETOWN EIGHTY YEARS AGO Charlotte and I were very young then, and very innocent. I liked our Town Charlotte, and was glad to see her. I had a long road to travel to see her — twenty-four miles. I liked the road then. At every corner there was a blacksmith shop, a tailor shop, a shoe shop, a carriage shop, a machine shop, and a rum shop. All these shops were kept busy. They had two or three apprentices all the time. I remember the Queen's Arms; we turned to the right to . In old times, the Town was divided in names: , Black Sam's Bridge, , , . I knew Black Sam at his bridge, and his little cabin. I knew the Town Crier, ringing his bell all around the and crying: "A sale on , Forty barrels of good Herring to be sold at two o'clock, Oh, yes! Must be sold. Oh, yes, at two o'clock!" I remember the big stores had black men out carrying their ad¬ vertising, their cheap goods, on a sign-board on their backs all around the on Exhibition days and through the Exhibition ground. It was a deal cheaper than The Guardian! Our Maiden Town was a very busy country town in the good days of long ago. At a crockery factory, making milk dishes, crocks and jars out of our red clay. Then close by was Boyle's Tannery, buying up all kinds of hides. They had one dozen men employed, and there were four or five more in the Town. I remember Dougald's furni¬ ture factory; we used to buy our furniture there. I remember John Newson had a big factory and store house, and Wright & Company.had a furniture store. The Town had White & Sons running a factory making mowing and reaping machines, and it had a large woollen factory, em¬ ploying 20 or 30 hands. I remember John Cairns , the first marble tombstone maker. He did a big business. And the Maiden Town had a lot of tradespeople in it: shoemakers, harness makers, tin shops. George Millner ran a big tin business. He sent out a lot of peddlers all through the Island, selling tins. A lot of house carpenters were employed in town and country, also lime plasterers, ship builders, and rum taverns, too many to count. I remember Robert Young running a large millinery and hat factory and many girls in town and country going there learning the art of dressmaking. I remember the churches seventy years ago: St. James Kirk , the Scotch "Free" and "Seceeder" churches, the Methodist and Bible Christian chapels, the English Church, and Catholic Church. The original buildings are all gone now and new ones in their place. I remember the town wells, one on every corner; wooden pumps with wooden troughs for watering horses. Robert Percival kept the pumps in repair. I remember the town lamps at every corner, and the men going round with their rods lighting them every night. ... I liked the old Round Market House. We had a Savings Bank in a small room in the Province Building, at five per cent. I put my money mites there in safe keeping. -4 37 ►-