until the early hours of the morning. Excellent violin music was fur¬ nished by Messrs. Fred Jay and Arthur Affleck , while the Misses. Egan, Woods and Coffin gave several choice selections on the organ. Dancing, which was indulged in by nearly all present, was kept up with spirit till nearly 3 o'clock. After partaking of a supper spread in princely style, the guests departed to their homes well pleased with the evening's entertainment, all but a little tired with their exertions. 'It's all very well to be waltzing, It's pleasures we love to recall. But oh! how we feel in the morning Going home, going home from the ball!" In March, 1910 the Examiner reported Edward Duff , Russell Clark and James Mclntyre to be in readiness for goose shooting in Tracadie Harbour . The "ethereal race" was, moreover, deemed to be in some difficulty, as all three were reputed to be skilled marksmen. By the early twenties, due to certain provisions of the Migratory Game Act which seemed to favour the "moneyed people of the U.S .," the hunters themselves were in difficulties. Collective action being con¬ sidered imperative, about fifty gunners met in the Forester's Hall on April 18, 1921 for the purpose of forming a game club. This was done, and, with Russell Clark as President and George Pigot , secretary, the organization undertook to promote the establishment of clubs all over the Island in hopes that the united voice of Island sportsmen could achieve progress in restoring rich and poor to an equal footing. In a speech at a subsequent meeting, Mr. Duff harkened back to "the good old days when musket, beaver hats and powder horns were in vogue" and "when there were no game wardens drawing good fat salaries and living at the best hotels at the expense of the taxpayers." "Take this from me," he prognosticated, "the time is not far distant when you will be forced to pay a tax for carrying a gun if you do not look out." Taxes were to come, however, in spite of the best efforts of the Mount Stewart Game Club, and they did not, it can be attested, effect any appreciable decline in the hunter population. With such performers as James Atkins as Victor Belmont in "The Soldier's Sweetheart" (1913), Frank Jardine as William Farran in "Fisherman's Luck" (1924) and Gladys Affleck as Virginia Bridger in "Safety First" (1928), Mount Stewart was, for long, the home of very creditable actors and actresses. The earlier plays were the pre¬ sentations of a formally constituted dramatic club which distributed the proceeds among the village's poor; later dramatic efforts were fund- raising projects of such worthy organizations as the Athletic Club or Women's Institute. Of all the plays staged, the one destined to have the most enduring impact was "Fisherman's Luck," presented in the Foresters' Hall on May 9, 1924 with the following cast of characters: Tom Manley (a poor fisherman) James Atkins ; William Farran (alias Squire Hammond) Frank Jardine ; James Hammond ( Farran 's son) Raymond Smallwood ; David Morris (Uncle Davie) Lane Pigot ; Silas Kidder (stage-struck) Ira Douglas ; Rev. George Medhurst , Ross Mc ¬ Carthy; Rose Prescott (Hammond's ward) Edith Pigot ; Mrs. Manley (Tom's mother) Ernestine Grant ; Ruth Manley (Tom's sister) Bessie Egan ; Little Nellie (a waif of the ocean) Mamie Mclntyre . In ad¬ dition, two little girds ( Edna Egan and Helen MacDonald ) acted an angel scene during the course of the performance. The sound effects supplied by Alvin MacKenzie , greatly enhanced the play's effectiveness. —105—