went into the house with the farm produce. The horse took off for home at top speed, losing the wagon to trees along the road, and arrived at the farm with just the harness on his back. The Alexanders, much concerned, went out looking for a dead boy, who, however, was safe at Dalvay. Earl's own memories begin with Sunday outings to Stanhope , by horse and four-seater carriage hired from a Charlottetown livery stable; the carriage had a canopy, but the seats were very hard, and it was a long, long drive, over dusty dirt roads, which were very narrow, and in places had trees meeting overhead. They would stop at streams along the way to water the horse, whose lunch of hay and a bag of oats went with them, to be eaten when the animal was tied up under a shady tree at Charlie Burt 's from whence they would go down to the beach; or they might drive down and leave the horse at Victor Hudson 's. On the way from town, they often filled a con?? tainer with fresh water from a spring near Marshall's Pond, for their picnic; later, when an automobile replaced the horse, they had to wait at Stanhope Church until church was out ??? apparently it "was not done" to drive past while the service was in progress! How different from nowadays! Earl remembers staying at Inn when the charge was $2.00 a day, and $1.50 at Seaside Inn, and this included meals. In the 1930s the local excitement was rum-running, and Earl remembers kegs of rum buried in the sand dunes. A very pleasant memory was of outings on Lauchlin Kielly 's beautiful yacht, the Faugh-a-Balla (Gaelic, in English, "Clear the Way") which was anchored down at the south-east end of the Bay; they would go sailing out in the , and it was sometimes difficult to make the passage out of the Bay at Covehead Harbour . In 1949 Earl Taylor bought an acre of land opposite Stanhope Beach Inn from Jack Warren ; the only cottage nearby at the time was Earl MacLeod 's, whose daughter Janet Connolly has good memories of summers at this end of the Stanhope peninsula. She stayed at Lodge and Seaside Inn as a child; in 1948 her father bought land from Jack and Hazel Warren and built their cottage, one of the first at the Point, their only neigh?? bours then being George and Elsie MacMillan, Jack and Hazel Warren, and Leigh Chappell and family across the fields. There was no bridge then at the harbour, just a "cat-walk" across the water and swamp from the foot of the Inn hill to the sand bar, which the MacLeods used when they walked to the harbour for fresh fish. Janet remembers visits to Harry MacLauchlan 's store; and clam digging, gathering oysters in the Bay, cooking lobsters in an old wash boiler on the outside fireplace, and picking mushrooms in fields now covered with cottages. Janet and Fred Connolly have built their year- round home next to the cottage, and they and their three sons continue to enjoy Stanhope . 246