about the many hardships that she encountered as a young girl. When she was ten years old her father died, leaving her older brother, Leonard, who was twelve, as father to the other four children. There was no government assistance at that time; so, they had to survive as best they could. Celia's mother earned a very meager wage by looking after the station house. In winter, she would leave home long before daylight to light the fire so that the station would be warm for people waiting to go on the morning train. She also had the duty of keeping the area clean, even scrubbing the floor, using a mixture of sand and water to complete the task. Sometimes the children would get a day's work with a neighbour during the busy season. The pay at that time was twenty-five cents a day. The basic foods were very scarce at times. Often, neighbours would supply them with some bread and molasses. Her daughter, Helen, remembers her telling about adding water to the empty molasses dish and dipping the bread into it just to get one last taste of the long- gone luxury. On one of my many visits with Celia, she always mentioned the water in which they cooked the fish. They saved this liquid, and when their fish was depleted, they used this water as a gravy on their dry potatoes. To them, this was a full-course meal. Occasionally, they had molasses to put on their bread to make a sandwich for school, but not very often. So this fish water was used as a filler for their home-made bread. Butter was delicacy for this family. Celia had a favorite uncle who came to visit once in a while. His treat was some penny candy for the children. It was worth a million dollars to this family who had so little. Once, Celia was walking along the road and looking down, saw a penny on the road. It was her first money and she thought that she was rich. 58