By Land and By Air

champion boxer. On the opposite side of the road (Wood Islands to the west, Charlottetown east) David Ross who lived with his brother John and sister, Eleanor. Dave had been in World War II and was a prisoner of war. He was on that long Stalag march. At that time he was just recovering from rheumatic fever. He stated that when a Russian stumbled or went out of the marching line, the Germans shot him. When a Canadian did the same, they had trucks following, and they threw him aboard.

Riston Gillis, the undertaker, was a character.

Poor Riston had a soft heart; after more than one or two funerals, he drowned his feelings with a small drinking bout. He was an excellent farmer and the farm shows it today. On our right there was a large garage owned by Warren Buchanan. They used to keep the snowplow there. They called it the Doctor’s Plow, after that very difficult trip to Wood Islands, which I have described. I travelled many miles in the snowplow with Pat Kelly, the plow operator.

Warren always kept my cars in good shape. He often went with me on snowy trips at night, and when I would come out from seeing the patient, even in a blinding snowstorm, Warren would have my car purring like a kitten. He was from Murray River and we knew many people down there.

When I first met Marty MacDonald, he lived in Lyndale where I had gone to school. He used to go around in the spring at that time and had a saw for cutting firewood. He kept a store in Eldon, and he and his wife were good neighbours.

The next house to Marty’s store was John Hiram MacDonald, who had moved from Orwell some years before. He and his wife kept the Post Office. He often came with me in the snowstorms. He was very good to Graeme

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