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"FOREWORD" I am so glatl to hem that [ha Wmucn'a Institute: til Ontario ate going to compile village hutory butvk' E‘L‘llth move Very fast nowadiys, houses ate punt-t1 dawn, u w fund: are made, and (In: uspccl of thc ctiunttymh- chungct com- pletely sometimes in a shell tame. It is a most uselhl and saliafying thalt fui Wumcu'a Infill- tute members to see that nothing valualflr lust m lotgottt‘n. and women should be on the alert ul\ 5 lo gum] thu traditions of (hit homes, and (U see that watei uilmu slutcht‘s and 1mm, poems and prose legends shqud find that “fly into these books. The uldest people in the village m1] tell it; fascinating stones of what they iemembei, which the ymmgei member; can write down, thus making a Midge between them and events which happened befme they was bull]. Aftel an it is the history nt hummtity which is tmtti Hy httiwsting to us, and your village histories will be the b4 ‘ at ht-mrute tam much valued by hismn‘ans of the futm- I All) proud to think that you have. called them “The 'l'wcedsuwir Village Histories". 7VVriltt’n by may Ttt-p.xttt.n....»,