Stewart MacDonald , M.D. wrench." He was troubled with severe attacks of asthma in his later years, but he would still work and wheeze in the rain. Finally he got so bad he would have to go to bed, under Dr. Brehaut 's care. The first thing my father would ask me when I came home from school was, "Did you hear how poor Johnnie MacPherson is?" They ex¬ pected him to die. Finally, in the spring, his son put a mattress on the sleigh, and carried the wheezing John¬ nie and put him on the Murray Harbour train. Some years later, when he made a short visit to PEI, he told me that he could feel his health improving before he got to Charlottetown , and one week after landing in Denver, USA, he was working in a sawmill. He never had asthma again but never risked staying in PEI . Later he died and was buried out there in Denver. I have known a number of Islanders who were unable to stay on PEI and had to go to the USA to get clear of asthma attacks. Dan and his wife, Kate, had three girls and a boy. I still can see him standing at the side of the school with his horse and sleigh in a blinding snow storm waiting for them, and covering them up with robes to shelter them on the way home. He always had them well dressed and saw that they attended school regularly. Dan had a kind heart and would help the sick. I remember him bringing a big sleigh load of wood to our home, one time when my father was sick. He was a good school trustee, a role held most of the time I was teaching in Little Sands school. The people of Little Sands can give him great credit for providing lumber and many days of free labour when we remodelled the Little Sands hall. Dan had one of the best farms in Little Sands . Al ¬ though there were several steep hills, there were a great number of level fields. One can still see the effect of the 50