had just gone down that crack between the bank and mill, a twelve foot drop.

Dan stopped the mill and he and I went down to investigate. By this time Nige had the horse unhitched and standing in the brook. Dan said we can take the cart out for it is all to pieces but how are you going to get the horse out, for the brook is built up with slabs each side as high as the horses back down to the bridge. Nige said give me a saw and I will cut the cross braces under the bridge and take her down the brook to where the bank is low.

By this time we had the cart out in a pile by the mill. Nige said now boys you don’t understand the combination of this cart but if you will get me a hammer and nails I will have this cart ready by the time Dan has my grist ground.

Nige loaded up his grist and said, Dan if any other man with his horse and cart can follow Where I went and is able to load his grist look- ing none the worse I will give him $5.00. This reward has never been claimed.

Adonijah was named for a brother of his grandfather who was killed at the Seige of Louisburg, the Marks family came from Maine, they were United Empire Loyalists.

Incidentally Nige had studied fortune telling. Later Arthur and a brother went to have their fortunes told, he told Arthur he would be kill- ed in war and WE. would be married three times. Arthur told his friends in France of having his fortune told and they told him to get that notion out of his head, that old man didn’t know any more than they did. Arthur died of wounds July 8th, 1917.

Mr. Marks was a master craftsman in wood working and horti- culture.

BIG FOREST FIRE

A big fire started in Norboro about the year 1825, it jumped the wide South West River and was heading for the mill in Long River. David Johnstone expected that everything would be destroyed for the woods came up to the mill at that date, he put their grandfathers clock and all their valuables in the saw pit and covered them up with saw dust and clay.

The wind shifted to the west and the fire crossed Long River and roared through the pine woods on the big hill and finished up at Hardings Capes, the clock is none the worse for being buried. It is still keeping good time for David Johnstone in Calgary, Alberta.

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