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u.‘ All @ 3. and we think her a wonderful woman, so unselfish and cheerful and contented with what life brings her. In clearing the land some Would cut the trees all around so that they couldfall as they leaned. Miss McColl heard her father tell about falling a tree accidently on a Highland neighbours lot. He told him he would make him take it off his ground to the very last chio. Their home life was verv simole, and some of them soent the summer sailing on the lakes. ihe first 16g school houses and their internal furniture and arrangeâ€" ments, were very similar to what has already been descrived in these sketches. The first school house (a little loq one) w'rs built in ldhO. The teacher was Mr. McCormick who boarded round at the different homes, and the salary vas dlé oer month. He had the old country modes of ounishment, but he was greatly resoected as well as feared by the ouoils. Before the schowl house was built the ounils met in the home of henry Dalmer, and he was their teacher. The first record of the Westminster council is dated March 4th, 1817, when the first meeting was held at Archibald McMillan’s tavern for the united townshios of hestminster, Delaware and Dvrchester. No doubt this was done, as in other townshios, under the authoritv of a warrent Prim the maqistrates of the Board of Quarter Sessions, and meetines endear to hav 6 been held from that time onward annually, at which the twons in officers were aooointed. There were no Highlanders at that time, and it does not annear that they took a very active oart even in later days. Miss McColl says,' the voter of those davs had to have a deed, and very often he had to take it with him to orove his right to vote. Politics are always in the Council, more or less. There was a Hiahlarder in the Council who was a Torv, while most of the Highlanders here are Grits. U» what they would, they could not get him out, but they manawsd it at last by runninq a Lowland Scoechman, who had a hiehlnnd wife. The Highlanders were so true that they would not run against one another! Donald Camohell, one of tze ouoils of the oioneer oeriod, contributes the following reminiscences: " In lRt} Mr. NcCormick, who had been a teacher in the old land, was engaged as fist teacher in S.S.No. 13, Westminster in the Hichland settlement. He was oaid b" a rate bill, so muc oer ouoil oer month. He boarded in the homes of he ouoils and the mo e ouoils in a home the linger he stayed. he manufactured the seats and desks of the old log school house. he took some large boys to the woods with him, and they cut basswood slabs ten feet long, carried them to the school house, where they bored holes in the end, out in wooden bins and used them for seats. jine boards two feet wide, sunoorted on stakes were used for desks.