terms. Among them was De Cervantes eulogy:

“Now blessings light on him who first invented sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak. It is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.”

And, of course, King Henry Fourth’s pathetic lament:

“0 sleep, 0 gent/e sleep,

Nature’s soft nurse, how have / frighted thee That thou no more Will weigh

my eye/ids down, and sleep my

senses in forgetfulness?

Why, rather, sleep, llest thou in

smoky cribs, upon uneasy pallets stretching thee ...... 7

At this point B remarked that the smoky cribs and uneasy pallets seemed to fit our present plight admirably: whereupon A commented: “It is no small honor to recall that one‘s plight was anticipated by Shakespeare" or words to that effect. 80 it went from hour to hour. From poem to anecdote, from anecdote to little bits of philosophy, and from those to disconnected recollections to other days and situations. But, “come what, come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day” and, one may add, the darkest night.

At the break of day the three hunters found themselves “clothing the palpable and familiar with golden exhalations of the dawn.”The waters, no longer dark and stormy, were crossed without difficulty, and the hot tea that awaited the party at 0’5 home in Launching was more exquisite than the “Nectarean juice which renews the life.”

How do I know all these things?. I was there. I was the B of the party, the grumbler of the twilight. Despite the discomforts it was a worth-while experience. That does not mean, however, that I shall go out of my way to duplicate it this year.

A word about Boughton Island itself. This is one of the historically important spots in the Province. Many generations of hard-working and honest people called it home. Now it has been abandoned and there is a touch of sadness in its forlorn and waste places.

Houses which once echoed the noisiness and laughter of children, and which were the centre-pieces of life with its alternate lights and shadows, are now falling rapidly into decay.

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