from the district. That meant I received $350 from the government plus 1/2 of $140-$75. maximum. The government gave 1/2 the difference of the

minimum Supplement $75 too.

One of the first things I bought was a watch, later my sister paid me the original price for it and it is still working today.

I boarded with Ansel and Maria Bernard, and my board was $2.50 a week, leaving me just enough to buy a few extras. Maria used to make scalloped potatoes that tasted like out-of—this—world. One day when I got a lift with a man, he asked, “Who is your teacher?” I replied, “I am the teacher.” When I told Maria she said, “You should have said, “Hattie

Clark, and a very fine teacher she is.” Quite a compliment I thought.

The parents often invited me to stay overnight and always gave me the best bedroom. I still remember how I admired a chamber set depicting apple

blossoms — pink, white, gold and green.

One week-end I spent with Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Burns. On that stormy Sunday, Mr. Burns, Grace Bernard and I started out for the United

Church in Malpeque. As we crossed the Baltic River in a jaunting sleigh, the water came over the ice and we lost sight of the bush markings which were there to guide one to the edge of Darnley Bridge. AFter a few anxious minutes we reached the Malpeque Bank. Then the sleigh went through pitches full of water which splashed us. There were very few inchurch that morning but the minister preached a good sermon. Not long after that the minister held a service in Baltic School and you may have guessed it—he

preached the same sermon.

Amongst souvenirs are a pendant from the school pupils, a string of

beads (some of which are triangular in shape) from my pupil, Ronald Delaney, now Father Delaney. (His mother was the organist at St. Mary’s

Church, Indian River.)

It was in Baltic that I first saw the servants sit at a different table from their masters.

One of my pupils later formed his own orchestra, another was the mother of many children one of which is my niece-in—law; another married a teacher and Civil Servant and they have recently returned home from

Germany.

All the pupils did very well, not because I was their teacher. The children learned history well by acting it out, once when the pupils acted out a Menagerie I had to laugh at the one who had the cat’s tail.

At the end of the term I gave presents to the pupils that led in each grade, I can still smell the lavender sachets‘I gave to some of the girls.

In June 1930 I finished my first teaching year and went back to Prince of Wales College to get my First Class License which insured me of a salary of

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