somewhat different slant on the overnight stay to that related by the Reverend John Paine. It forms the basis of my story The Story Tel/erwhich is also included. in it | injected my version of some of his stories which he delighted in telling to any visitor.

My thanks to members of the King family and to Muriel MacKenzie and Jane MacQuarrie, to Jacqueline Christian, Michael MacDonald,

Michael MacCormack and descendants of the MacCormack family. Also to Connie lngs, Nat Mair, Brad Oliver and Nora Macdonald. Muriel MacKenzie was born in 1917. She and her father survived the Halifax Explosion which flattened a great part of the city. Her mother died from the effects of the explosion. Muriel and her father moved back to Boughton Island to be with the grandfather. In her Memories of Boughton Island, she tells of Janie Llewellyn who came each year with her family and stayed for the summer. The delight of a little girl welcoming back a playmate after the long winter’s isolation is not difficult to imagine.