went. He was a bachelor then, as his wife had been dead for a number 
     
     of years. We often took off from Boughton island took Alex to the 
     
     pictures in Montague, some whiskey, a lunch at Mosher’s restaurant, 
     
     getting back to Boughton Island at 4 o’clock in the morning. He was 
     
     one rugged old man and I guess we had to be too. But when it came 
     
     to the money, he was a Scotchman, our Dandy. I made up the books 
     
     when we were through, lumber left over, lumber used, it was all 
     
     accounted for and balanced. My brother had never been paid for all 
     
     the boat trips as he said to keep records and make the bill out for one 
     
     issue, but by the time we got around to this, Alex got on the drunk and 
     
     Pete did not get his money so I took it to Dr. Grant, our representative 
     
     and he soon sent it to us. 
     
    

    
     As a timber man, the pay for me was $2.80 per 9 hour day, and 
     
     that was a lot of money in the hungry thirties. This was the first amount 
     
     of money that we had made in our lives. We spent Christmas on the 
     
     island. The first of January, Peter, Lloyd King and I decided that since 
     
     we had some money we should go to Charlottetown for a week. We 
     
     launched the 
     
     dory rowed to 
     
     G e o r g e t o w n 
     
     and caught the 
     
     CNR train for 
     
     Charlottetown 
     
     the next 
     
     morning. We 
     
     got a room, 50 
     
     cents a day for a 
     
     bed and stayed 
     
     in Charlottetown 
     
     for one week. 
     
     We went to a boxing match....Benny Binns was one of the boxers and 
     
     I am not sure of the opponent’s name but Binns won. We arrived by 
     
     train back in Georgetown at 8 pm, put our suitcase in the dory the 
     
     10th day of January and rowed to Boughton island getting home at 1 
     
     o’clock in the morning. Quite a risk in the winter time, night an all, but 
     
     we were used to rowing from Boughton Island to Georgetown. 
     
    

    
     LOBSTER FISHING 
     
    

    
     This was the beginning of 1938, so after this vacation, we played 
     
    
   
   
    
     cards, did the chores around until March. Then we started readying 
     
     55