of the trench cellars and earth works. was at one time rented to Captain Stukely; a friend or relative of the Captain Burers. who was the first resident at St. Andrews. After his departure for Ehgland, the farm was rented by Hr. Donald Beaton. who with his family had come from Lochaber in Scotland to settle in IIe’St. Jean.

Mr. Beaton had several sons who assisted him on his farm. he also had hired the services of an English labourer, who was a resident in his house, One night this servant was out about the farm until a late hour and returned in

a state of nervous excitement, telling how he had seen an old man in the blue

uniform of a French Military Officer, who had asked him to meet him at a given spot on the following night.

The Englishman appeared anxious to escape the proffered interview, but Mr. Beatons sons persuaded him to keep his appointment, and provided him with a blessed candle and holy water, in case of emergencies. The military

ghost, true to his word appeared, and after a long conversation with the

Englishman, told him. that when

" On every stream should stand a mill

And a house he built on every hill".

The French would again come and take possession of Ile St. Jean. He also mentioned casually that he was buried under the end of one of Mr. Boston's barns. and adduced as a proof of the verocity of all that he had said that a certain cow would be turned out to graze with the herd the following day and would never more be seen. This fell out as was foretold but modernr incredibility suggests that this story was simply a clever plan laid for the stealing of the aforesaid cow. Another legend which is in all prob- ' ability the story of a fact, is that before the poor Acadians were shipped off in Captain Nicholle leaky transport, they took their church plate. the

missal and vestments and put them in a cannon, which they buried as they