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his legislative career an industrious and useful representative. Among 

 the measures he carried was one for the reduction of the term of the 

 assembly from seven to four years — a practical extension of the control 

 of the people over their representatives. " Have you heard," said one of 

 his friends on one occasion — to relate one of many anecdotes of his wit — 

 " that Street, the tailor, has been found in a well on Argyle street ? " 

 " Yes," replied the wit, " but you have not heard how he was discovered. 

 An old woman, it seems, while drinking her tea was taken with a violent 

 stitch in her side, and called out that there must be a tailor in the well ! " 

 Judge Savary, of Annapolis, also tells a story of Doyle's ready wit 

 at a public dinner in Halifax many years ago, when public and social life 



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was more brilliant than it has been ever since. The late Thomas 

 Kenny, a brother of Sir Edward, happened to drink a glass of champagne 

 somewhat hastily, and was nearly choked by a bit of cork that had 

 escaped into the glass. The chairman called out, '•' Anything wrong at 

 your end of the table, Mr. Yice ? " Honourable James Boyle Uniacke, 

 the vice-chairman, replied, " Oh, nothing serious, only a little 

 champagne gone the wrong way to Cork!" Whereupon Doyle ex- 

 claimed, '' but it has gone the right way to kill Kenny (Kilkenny) !" 

 In striking contrast to the versatile, eloquent, witty bon convive, " Larry 

 Doyle," as he was always called, was Herbert Huntington, of Yarmouth, 

 whose physical proportions, courageous character, were typical of the 



1 The portrait of Mr. Herbert Huntington is from an original in the possession of 

 his son at Yarmouth, N.B., and has been kindly given me by Mr. Flint, M.P. 



