THE SELKIRK SETTLERS 109 Or where some weather-beaten tree With antique boughs o'erspread, Has stood the second century And cast its sombre shade— Or near some spring that always boils, A mark for ever sure! They hid the fruit of all their toils But never saw it more! Some say at times on old grey stones Strange apparitions dance! Suppos'd the shades of men, whose bones Are mouldering in France! The Scots brought with them to Prince Edward Island their traditional Highland courtesy and kind¬ ness. A record of this is left by Walter Johnstone , a shoemaker of Dumfries, who travelled around the Island, in 1820, in the interest of Sabbath schools. At this time, night came on and the snow was so deep that I was obliged to turn from the road and ask for quarters at the house of a Highlander with whom I had no acquaintance. The favor was granted without the least appearance of reluctance or difficulty. The family consisted of the man and his wife with one son and daughter. I got a bed in the kitchen with blankets, feather bed and bolster. But while I was so well accommodated I knew nothing how the rest of the family were supplied with these necessaries. A board partition divided the house and the family slept in the other apartment. But on the Monday morning when I stept beyond the partition in search of my bundle how greatly was I surprised to see the two bedsteads with nothing but dry hay in both of them. I came to know the fact that the people had lain both nights with their clothes on, and that I had got all the bedding in the house for my accommodation. I am sorry that I cannot insert the name of the Highlander.