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rest are English, though some, like Topsy, seem to have “just growed. "

I wonder what story lies behind Five Houses and Sailor’s Hope. I wonder if they can really see the water from Ocean View; if they hurry at Miminegash Run; if weary wanderers stop at Traveller’s Rest; and if the beach at White Sands is really white.

Of all the men who contributed their names to the Island Province perhaps no one did more in this line than the family of Charles Lennox, third Duke of Richmond and Lennox, Earl of Darnley, Earl of March, Duke of Gordon. His Wife was the daughter of Charles, fourth Earl of Elgin and third of Aylesbury. They were a notable family. In fact, George III wanted to marry the Duke’s sister, Lady Sarah. She was then in her seventeenth year, of surpassing loveliness, and with a bewitching manner. The House of Lennox, of course, was delighted. But the Princess Dowager and Lord Bute opposed the match. Whenever the king and Lady Sarah were together, Lord Bute found an excuse to interrupt them. Lady Sarah's family never missed an opportunity of throw- ing her in the king’s way; but Lady Sarah broke her leg, and while she was recuperating, George was persuaded to change his mind and marry the Princess Charlotte, daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg- Strelitz. Poor Sarah, who might have been the bride, was, instead, only a bridesmaid.

I wonder if Lady Sarah really wanted to marry George III. History says that he was a good, kind- hearted man who was anxious to do what was right for the country. He was young and handsome. Lady Sarah, however, was said to have been in love at the time with Lord Newbottle. But she had no