Stewart MacDonald, MD.

the horse to back. When I came back home there was never any more trouble. How he taught him, I know not.

Sibbauld had a Collie dog. When evening came he would tell the dog to go after the cows which were in a field by the shore. The dog would go down, open the gate, and drive them home.

Sibbauld was one of the first to have a Model T car. He did not drive it much, although at that time one could get 3 gallons of gas for a dollar and have enough change to put on the collection plate at church. I recall when I was a small boy getting that cent ready a long time before the collection plate arrived. This trait of trying to get ready before time never left me. I think of this when I get the card ready to get into the parking spot at the hospital about half a mile before I get there.

As a doctor I treated Sibbauld in his last illness. He became extremely dizzy. I had six consults at the hospi- tal with no diagnosis. Dr. Lantz advised me to send him to Halifax, where he died soon after from a brain ailment.

In my mind’s eye I can still see him watering his horses at a well house near his house. Sadly, his house is in a dilapidated state, and soon it will fall down and the young folks of Little Sands will forget poor Sibbauld and his sense of humour.

Willie MacDonald’s house, currently resided in by the Palmer family

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