Stewart MacDonald, M.D.

no Family Allowance in those days, and they were cer— tainly not considered as poor. It must have kept George really busy to provide for his family, but they always seem to have been well fed and well clothed.

I remember when I was about ten years old he always cut my hair, but one evening poor George had been cel- ebrating, which he seldom did, and was not seeing very straight. The hair was cut much longer on one side than the other. I was at a Christmas concert the next day. My mother was quite disgusted and that was the end of hair cutting at that source, but George always remained a very close friend and always treated me well when I was young.

I can still remember shovelling snow with George on a Saturday, the day after Hitler went into Austria. Little did we know What the day would bring. George liked to chew “twist" and he said it gave him great pleasure to spit on the clean snow. We often worked together when threshing in the fall and sawing wood in the spring. More than once I travelled to Pictou in the boat, and used to go fishing codfish with him and Alex, although I caught few fish. I always paid dearly for the fish by getting seasick. I think in those days I could get seasick by standing on the wharf on a stormy day. No doubt George had his worrying days in a bad Eastern storm, while he watched his boat as well as his means of living toss on the deep waves and bob in the water, as there was no shelter from the East. Fortunately the boat never broke loose or filled with water.

I never heard George complain of hard times even in the depth of Depression. He seemed to be well pleased with life, and seemed to be satisfied to provide for his growing family.

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