“No", Jim said, “they are right here". And told him the story. Then 
     
     with Mr. Hayter’s dory we rowed back to the Island where they all had 
     
     spent a night worrying. 
     
    

    
     Another trip across the bar that I recall involved my father and my 
     
     oldest brother, Lloyd. They took a young beef animal over to Launching 
     
     to be sold. it was walked behind the horse and cart. There was a 
     
     sandbar you could cross at low tide which had one narrow section of 
     
     water that was deeper than the rest. You had to wade the horse through 
     
     that part. This was called “Hughie’s Channel” and was caused from the 
     
     fishing boats dragging in and out. They crossed over to Launching and 
     
     sold the animal for $60.00 to a cattle buyer by the name of Jim Shaw. 
     
     On the way back the tide had risen quite a bit, and when they got to the 
     
     channel it was so deep that the cart floated off the wheels, as it was just 
     
     set on by pins. The horse started swimming but was heading up the 
     
     bay into deeper water. Lloyd jumped over and swam to shallow water. 
     
     My father tried to steer the horse to shore but horses are hard to rein in 
     
     water. Jim Hayter, seeing what was gong on, came out with his dory. 
     
     He and my father were able to lead the horse back to shore where they 
     
     discovered that the $60.00 was gone. Again with Jim’s dory, they went 
     
     out and found the three $20. bills floating on the water. 
     
    

    
     I also recall the last year the Llewellyn’s cook house ran on the 
     
     Island (I believe it was 1946). Quite a few fishermen had moved to 
     
     Launching Harbour or to Georgetown by that time. Although our family 
     
     had moved to Georgetown, we went back to Boughton Island to live for 
     
     the lobster fishing season. A mother and two daughters from Souris 
     
     were cooks at the Llewellyn cookhouse. One girl had a black cat. l was 
     
     rowing them out by dory to a fishing boat that was to take them back to 
     
     Souris. Before we got to the boat the cat jumped out and one of the girls 
     
     tried to grab it. The dory went over on it's side. filled with water, and they 
     
     all went overboard. l hauled the mother back into the half-filled dory and 
     
     paddled with one oar to the others while lying in the stern of the dory. 
     
     One girl could swim but she was too frightened. I held on to the two girls 
     
     until help came from Jim Llewellyn and Irving Sampson who saw what 
     
     was happening from the shore. Everyone ended up wet but safe. The 
     
     whole thing was blamed on the black cat which had climbed back in to 
     
     the dory on its own. Although there was many close calls getting on and 
     
     off the Island, no one was ever lost. 
     
    
   
   
    
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