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Sullivan from Souris arrived on that moonlit night. Mamie decided that they should dress up in old rigs to scare "Margaret and Mom" when they came walking home from Paul's. They went to Victor Bea— ton's gate and hobbled in front of them and when they got back home to Percy's gate they passed it. After Margaret and Hrs. Bea— ton arrived home they went there and asked to spend the night. However, Mrs. Beaton and Margaret were not fooled. They had seen through it and were not scared. After a while Percy Beaton arr- ived. He was perturbed and frightened. He had gotten to Victor's gate when he seen a tall man (by the light of the moon) staring at John Beaton's house (which was standing in a field between Victor and Percy Beaton's houses).501 (This John Beaton was an uncle to

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Lauretta and Victor For some reason Percy felt he did not want

to cross this man's path. He went around home through the fields.

Much later Mamie and Emma (MacIntyre) seen the same opposition.

They could not find anyone in East Point who was there at those times.505 The second source of local folklore was buried treasure.

Some believed that it was pirate's gold maybe even Captain Kidd's last

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treasure. Other people believed there were valuables placed there by the Acadians before their expulsion. Despite vigorous diggings

on the Lemon Road, just off this road near the bank, at the site of Stewart MacIntyre's cottage and inside the West gate fence at Susan's nothing was found except a rock dated 1742 with a figure of a man

on the opposite side. This was probably the work of a prankster.

It certainly was used by pracksters later to fool Syl Campbell that treasure was buried in the areal Syl deduced from a dream he had

in which someone appeared to him that the treasure was buried a cer~

tain compass course from the light.505 The best, documented treasure