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8 John Donald MacPhail acted as the community vet, helping out when cows were birthing. Years ago, pigs often had an iron deficiency and would pass it to their piglets. John Donald figured out that putting shovelfuls of clay in with the sows helped. The sows would eat the clay and absorb the iron from it.

Alohn Donald .\lacl)h41il in his yard with a horse and foal.

a One night Roma MacDougall came down to Bev MacPhail ’s with the horse and sleigh and said they’d go see Edith. They started out down the road. It was dark and the reins were getting shorter and shorter before they realized that the shafts had come out of the sleigh. Cecil MacPhail came down and put them back in.

3‘ Lillian Pinkney remembers being home from Prince ofVVales College for Easter vacation. When it came time to go back, the roads were too muddy for a car to make it to Charlottetown. They couldn't get up the Strathgartney Hill so she had to go to Charlottetown on Theoff Beaton’s boat leaving from Bonshaw". The boat carried supplies but had a cabin which could hold a small number of passengers. Another time, it was winter and the cars couldn’t make it through, so someone took her by horse and sleigh. She remembers it seemed to take forever to get there. Theoff's brother, Wendell had a horse stable in Charlottetown and it was arranged that the horse could stable there. Wendell’s wife had a meal waiting for her when she arrived. She also remembers that Alex MacNevin (a friend ofher

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