Stewart MacDonald, MD.

to your sister."

Johnnie Currie left the farm, but I was never told why. He went to find his fortune in the United States. His father was married twice and had 22 children. When Johnnie's brother was asked how many were in the fam- ily, he said, “Twenty-two and a lot in the country that look just like us.”

In those days the older ones left home before the youngest were born. One of Johnnie’s brothers met a man in Seattle who looked so much like his sister that he spoke to him, and found out that it was his older brother whom he had never met.

There was a lot of clear land above and below the road. It was the custom in my early years to let the young cattle out to the woods in the spring. A lot of them would get free grass on the vacant Currie farm. I used to be scared of the young bulls that would be in the fields on my way to school. The clear land is long past being covered with grass. In fact, lumber has been taken off it.

When I was going to school, a family of MacLeans moved to the old broken down house. They were very poor and the neighbours used to give them some food, such as potatoes. A family of Comptons in Morell took all but the youngest child of the MacLean family to bring up. The older ones were working. The older boy was a good worker and became a good carpenter.

58