By Land and By Air

could put a sum on the board, and before I would get a line drawn at the bottom, he would have the answer.

I used to give the pupils a large multiplication sum on the blackboard on Friday afternoon, and when they finished they could go home. When the second one finished, I could see John up at Little Sands church about a mile away.

At the end of the school year, I went to Prince of Wales College and got my First Year Pre-Med courses. With the deep Depression, the hope of going to Dalhousie University was an impossibility which only became possible by Hitler acting up, causing World War II, which also put an end to those dreadful Depression years. I guess I was lucky to have a job while so many able-bodied men were seeking employment. So much has been written about the Depression that I will not dwell on the topic, other than to say that it was an experience that made me appreciate the value of a cent. I never got clear of that dreaded feeling of saving up for what lies ahead - let us hope that the Canadian people never again go through a deep Depression.

My next four years I taught in Little Sands, all for $600.00 a year. People just survived; I had not much to record, other than buying a racehorse, the first year after getting back to teaching, as my driving horse had died from lockjaw the week before I went to Prince of Wales College. I certainly had a good time attending all the dances for miles around, arriving home at all hours of the morning to get up and teach the next day, wondering how I would ever get out of the rut, as most young men started off their career by teaching.

The next year I bought a Chev. car for $125.00 and only 20,000 miles on it. I drove it for about 60,000 miles. At that time, for one dollar, one could get three gallons of

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