young children to bed at an early hour in the evening so tha; they might repair in their pirogues to * where they would take on board a load of stones, which returning to their clearing they would taen deposit and start off for another loud. 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 tne dwellings consisted 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 tne 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 Coirmunion. 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 1819. 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 enotuer leading parishioner, Joseph Apsenault , bled them, and,unfortunately thi3 is stiil 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 nece33ary furnishing. Father Beaubien and Fataer Cecile always brougnt with them a portable altar.