TABLE OF CONTENTS

(Continued) CHAPTER VII PAGE MY BOYI—IOOD NEIGHBOURS 81

Grand view. Our observatory. How we vaccinated ourselves. Medi- cines. Poisonous Mushrooms. The cattle doctors and the Gaelic. Snuff and snuff boxes. Horse sense and a man’s folly. Old swearer got a ride on a stirk’s back. A jump ending in midstream. Eating hard oat cake. Billy nine toes. Indians and crazy people. A fight with a crazy man. ‘

CHAPTER VIII NEIGHBOURHOOD SOCIAL LIFE 92

Musical instruments. Music and dancing. The house warming. Card playing and the raffle. Hallowe’en. The prize in the mash. Spooks, goblins, Will-o—the-wisp. Blind man’s buff. Who’s got the button? Ghosts and ghost stories. The ghost a man shot. The ghost that stood my bed on end with me in it. How I got cured of the fear of ghosts. Strange lights seen on the earth and in the sky. The milling frolic. Taffy pulling social.

CHAPTER IX COUNTRY AND LOCAL AFFAIRS 105

How elections were conducted. Statute labour. School and educa- tional affairs.

CHAPTER X

RELIGION 109

Protestant and Catholic customs. The wake and funerals. A friend- ly horse race on Sunday. The old minister. A bold trick on the old minister. When the rooster crowed in church. Samson slaying the Philistines. Sundays.

CHAPTER XI

MY SCHOOL DAYS- 11‘)

Starting to school. Bears and battles. Helping Johnny. The old schoolhouse. A narrow escape from an enraged bull. Schoolhouse equipment. Modes of punishment. How we got the time. Inventing a sundial. The goose in the well. When the bottom came out of the well bucket. Dinnertime at school. Stealing into the strawberry field. Swapping dinners. School games and tricks. Rounder. Fox and hounds. The big fight. Pleasures and dangers of the lake. The red doctor. Making a brave. Inventing a wonderful telescope. Writing a French boy’s love letter. Following suit. Paying back injuries. Tripped into the deep hole. “Put on the shutters, school is closed."

HAPPY MEMORIES