As I Remember Them

as I took my 4th year after the war. She had been born on an extremely stormy night when I was teaching in Wood Islands school my first year. She became a nurse and is the present Ardeth Smith in Charlottetown. Her other sister, Marlene, married a Miller from Murray River and is now living in BC after the death of her husband.

I remember Jimmie visiting home when I was very young and giving me a little book on Dan Patch, the fa- mous race horse. When one turned the pages fast with one thumb the horse would seem to be racing along. This was the method they used in movie shows by moving pic- tures fast on a projector.

Jimmie became one of the most successful farmers in Little Sands and finished off by truck farming where he sold vegetables by the ton. He was a very honest man and I recall him filling bags of potatoes for market and after the scales tipped ninety pounds he always threw in a couple of extra potatoes. He was so honest and partic- ular in selection that he never had any trouble selling a truck load of his farm products in Cape Breton. He al- ways kept his household well supplied with groceries. I can still recall the many lunches that Helen would put on the table. There would be so much bread , sandwiches, frosted cake and cookies and she would have them piled high on the plate. As Depression was in full force one appreciated such a treat.

I was in my middle teens when Jimmie came home. He was not married for some time. After he came home he had a good driving horse and he used to take me as a middle teenager to the dances. I recall he and Dave Panting, a former RCMP, going to a dance in Abney. I guess I must have been a saucy brat and some man got mad at me. Dave was going to take him apart, only that Jimmie cooled him down.

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