Now this little girl that’s waiting, tried to do her duty home

She is working in a war plant, trying to help her soldier home When his furlough it is granted, how he wishes he was home

For to see his dear old mother and the girl he left alone

When this orue/ war is over and the soldiers leave for home There’ll be some of them that’s missing, left to seek a better home,

Listening to the old battery radio, playing cards and checkers, and telling stories were favorite pastimes on the Island. There were many good story-tellers and my brother Lloyd was one. He would read books, mostly westerns, and then he would tell the story to all of us younger ones. This was before he went to the war.

The Gotells’ grandfather, William Farrell, would come to the Island and sometimes stay for a month at a time. He was a great story teller and would gather all the kids together to tell ghost stories. He was blind and was called Blind Farrell but of course to us he was Mr. Farrell. He only spoke when you addressed him as that, and would answer by saying your name. He knew everyone‘s voice. He would sit on the floor while he told his stories and we had to be very quiet as he could hear, as they say, “the grass growing” and would stop if there was one word spoken. I remember one of Mr. Farrell's stories, “The Haunted House".

There was a beautiful house that anyone could own if they could stay in it for one night. After a lot of people had failed, this fellow said he was frightened of nothing. He stayed until three in the morning when footsteps came down the stairs and walked around where he was. He tried to touch it but there was nobody. The ghost walked around and opened all the doors. You could hear its footsteps but could see nothing. The fellow decided to take off. While running down the road, a rabbit was running in front of him. He said to the rabblt,"Get out of the way and give someone a chance to run that can run” This was just one of his stories.

SCHOOL DAYS

About 12 to 15 kids would attend school throughout the year. Grades went from 1 to 10 in the early days, but were later cut back to 1 to 8. In the Spring, some of the fishermen and factory owners would take their children to live on the Island with them. I recall that almost all of the

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