My husband was born in Rob’s Lea Farm, and they used to be in Henry’s croft too. McKinnon is his name. We came up here in 1911 and settled on a C.P.R. farm six miles out of Lougheed. After that we homesteaded, seven miles from our farm, and bought a quarter of school land joining our homestead, so that we have two farms, three quarter sections of land. We brought pure bred horses with us. But we lost such a lot that long winter. Before that we were so well fixed, but it may be good times will come back again. We trust so; for everybody. We had a dandy crop this year--all kinds of feed, and we are still holding to a bunch of stock in the hope that prices will come again. Now I offer you my congratulations on your success. My husband joins me. I sent the “Manitoba Free Press” to my brother, Robert Bell, in Alexandria, N.B., which I am sure, he will also read with pleasure. At this season we like to offer greetings, and especially to old friends. Again accept my warmest regards. I am, Yours respectfully, I. M. McKINNON. P.S.--I must correct you in the name of the tune “Belmont”; it should be “Balerma”. [2] A few days after this was printed in Toronto I received a letter from another former clerk at Buchanan Street, who was there after my time enquiring if the perpetrator of this discipline was not “Old D----”. It was. [3] At the time this book was in the press it was estimated that 50,000,000 bushels of the 1923 crop would be exported to Vancouver. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. One of the repetitive title headings ‘Trains of Recollection’ in the frontmatter has been removed. The Table on page 290 was printed sideways in the original book. It has been rotated to the horizontal and split into two parts in this etext. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained: for example, waybills, way-bills; firebug, fire-bug; program, programme; Scotsman, Scotschman; employes, employees; fluctuous; destinated; growed; apocryphers; gipsy; woodware.