/ - 23 - of Beers Band, BJ3SABLE SCHOOL - The first attempt to give educ¬ ation in this pioneer district was by agreement between settlers and one of their members, a first class teacher from Scotland . The Visitors, or Inspectors report of 1830 -1834 only recognized this beginning by listing — "Sf.bls School, Teacher, Roderick Campbell ". This report confirms the story told many vears ago by an old neighbour, of his mother before him, attending the first school in a vacant log cabin on hill side, near ; land now owned by Henry Ferguson . The story told of a certain day when one of the pupils, a oil: foot Highlander by name of MacQuarrie, rebelled against ths strict discipline and defied his teacher. After smashing out the one window in the cabin and calling on his clansmen to follow, he strode out, it was said, 'in great fury1. On that day ended the first private school in DeSable , v