Counesy Maude MacKenzie

At the Galfield races in 1918.

Education

I went to school in Surrey; it’d be Surrey School then, I guess. Walked about two, three miles. Lem Compton’s wife was the first teacher. She was pretty cranky, but anyhow, I went to her school. And then I went to Sadie MacLeod’s school there. Then they closed the school. Then I didn’t go to school for quite a while.

And Dan Faulkner, he lived down where Willie Ross lives there now, he got me a job with the minister, Minister MacPhee. I was supposed to [live with him and] go to Eldon to school. I always went to church: my mother was a great church—goer. But I never went to church while I was there or I never went to school.

I used to drive him up to church and... go and meet him. I’d be about 10 or 1 1... . And then I used to have to wait up at night. So one night he come home late and asked me something, and I said, “Yes.” He said, “You ‘Sir’ me.” So I put his horse in the barn and I went home, about one or two o’clock in the morning. I had to come up MacCoy’s Hill. I was pretty

scared.

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