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frost and blinding storm, they were rescued in a half frozen and almost dying condition; they with one or two exceptions begged to be taken to the Bishop's Hospital. This request was acceded to and a mournful procession of sleighs. never to be forgotten. by those who witnessed it. conveyed them to that institution. There for weeks. and in some cases months. they were nursed and cared for by the good Grey Nuns. What better proof of the good nursing and excellent medical attendance which they received, then the fact that everyone of them recovered. Again in 1885 when on the 12th of November Small-pox of a virulent type broke out in our midst, and the dreadful news spread like wildfire through the town, causing the strongest to tremble. the good Grey Sisters at once offered their services to nurse the sick. Their charitable offer was most discourteously disregarded at first, by certain interested persons who were ashamed to accept the services of those whom they had endeavoured to injure, and a long and fruitless advertising for secular nurses was commenced in our local journals as well as in those of the Sister provinces. At length, finding that even with Honey they could not procure what they had scornfully rejected when offered for the love of God, the Board of Health were. forced to call the good sisters to their assistance, two of whom with a Franciscan went without demur to the Hospital, where during the continuance of the epidemic. they pursued their charitable labours unceasingly. That they were appreciated. though tardily, is demonstrated by the fact that. after some weeks of battling with ‘the small-pox. some members of the Board of Health waited upon the Bishop to beg him to telegraph to Quebec for two more Sisters!

From the first breaking out of the disease in Charlottetown until its lingering

death, the Rev. A.J.lbIntyre. Senior Priest of St. Eunstan's Cathedral. was

assiduous in his ministrations to the sick and afflicted. The clergyman of the

Anglican and Presbyterian Churches also visited the HOSpital - but the young priest

who so humbly and unostentatiously comforted, consoled, and even helped to nurse

the sick and who acted as chaplain to the sisters - isolated from all other

surroundings for a period of two months, deServes and possesses the lasting gratitude

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