_Here Stood The Undaunted Fifty Safeguarding Canada Defeating Montgomery At the Pres-de-Ville Barricade On the Last Day of 1775 Guy Carleton Commanding at Quebec_ That on Molsons Bank measures two feet ten inches by two feet six inches, and its legend relates: _Here Stood Her Old and New Defenders Uniting, Guarding, Saving Canada Defeating Arnold At the Sault-au-Matelot Barricade On the Last Day of 1775 Guy Carleton Commanding at Quebec_ [Illustration: [Fleuron]] A “SCRUB-POETICAL” ANSWER TO A GOVERNOR His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, governor of His Majesty’s provinces of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, must have many times realized what a very difficult and disagreeable task it is to drive an ill-matched team, especially when one of them is to all appearances possessed of the Evil One, and the pole is loose and not to be depended on. Such a team the governor had in his two provinces, and he was a very busy man. Massachusetts kept well in the traces and gave him comparatively little trouble. He lived in Boston, and was thus able to maintain a more intimate knowledge of the people of that State and the trend of public opinion than was possible to do in respect to more distant New Hampshire, where he was relatively a stranger. Though not popular as a man or as a Crown official, his personal presence in Massachusetts as governor, with the miniature court, the sumptuous appointments, and the dignity which accompanied the King’s commission, necessarily had some effect in steadying the progress of government there.