young children to bed at an early hour in the evening so that they might repair in their pirogues to Cape Egmont. where they would take on board a load of stones, which returning to their clearing they would then deposit and start off for another load. If it were moonlight they would keep on for hours. perhaps all night. In this manner they provided the necessary stones for the cellar. hearth. oven and chimney of their house. For the first winter the floors of most of the dwellings.consieted of unhewn logs, laid side by side. An old lady tells that her mother brought many turnips from St. Eleanors, and that in order to eke out the slender stock of provisions she used to give the children the turnip tops to eat. They hated this half withered salad and slyly dropped the leaves between the logs.of the floor where the irate mother discovered them in the spring. This same old lady related also that among the early Acadians settlers children were never admitted to table with their parents until after they had made their First Coununion.

As.soon as possible after settling at St. Jacques. the Acadians put up their first church. probably a very rough structure. It was burnt down one night in the year l§l9. The people at once put up a frame structure on the same site. This second church was dignified with a gallery, and one Sunday. whilst Father Cecile was saying mass the gallery fell. hurting some of the congregation who happened to be underneath it. Father Cecile paused in the celebration and told the people not to be afraid but to convey the wounded chez Jacques Bernard. one of the chief persons of the village. The priest went on with his mass, and the wounded were taken to Jacques Bernard where another leading parishioner, Joseph Arsenault, bled them. and.unfortunately this is stidl a specific for all sorts of maladies in some Acadian villages. The second church of St. Jacques was thirty-five feet in length by forty-five in width. It was utterly destitute of all ornaments or even necessary furnishing. Father Beaubien and Father Cecile

always brought with them a portable altar.