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St. Thomas, Exeter, England, at which place he remained until his 

 death during the past year, 1902. 



Mr. Swabey's ^ memory is held in high esteem by many of his old 

 parishioners at St. Jude's Church, Carleton, St. John, N.B., and many 

 anecdotes are related regarding him. Careless as to appearances and 

 an earnest conversationalist, we can almost see him now, as upon one 

 occasion he drove off the Carleton Ferry at low tide up the steep floats, 

 in a conveyance perhaps akin to the Wonderful One-Hoss-Shay des- 

 cribed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his poem entitled the Vicar of 

 Bray, when on the 



First of November, fifty-flve; 



This mornimg the parson takes a drive, 



No'W, small boys, get out of the way. 



Here comes the wonderful one-hoss-shay 



Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-neck' d bay, 



" Huddup! "said the parson, off went they. 



Yes, off the boa,t and up the floats, the rat-tailed bay wandering 

 at his own will over the floats, now with one wheel dangerously near 

 the edge, almost over the water, the next moment the other wheel 

 mounting high upon the log which divides the footpath from the car- 

 riage way, a piece of an old clothes line for reins, with harness held 

 together with twine, board nails and pieces of wire, the parson earnestly 

 discoursing all the while, and his companion in momentary dread of a 

 fatality, or again in the words of Holmes, 



" First a shiver, and then a thrill," 

 Then something decidedly like a spill." 



But to resume our subject after a somewhat lengthy digression. 

 In the issue for July, 1901, the editor of The Prince Edward Island 

 Magazine pays a high tribute to E. L. M., whose series of five articles 

 on Charlottetown fifty years ago, has much value as a contribution 'to 

 the historical literature of the Island, in part in the following words: — 



"For the first time since the establishment of this magazine, we 

 are called U|pon to announce the death of a contributor, and to testify 

 as far as the poor words at our command will allow, to the worth of a 

 most estimable and well-beloved woman. Tio many of our readers the 

 identity of the writer, E. L. M. may have been known. But it was not 

 known to all, that the initials were those of Elizabeth L. MacDonald, 

 the wife of Hon. Senator A. D. MacDonald of Charlottetown. The 

 majority of our readers will, we fell sure, mourn her death. By the 



'■ A short biographical sketch of Mr. Swabey, withi portrait, about 1860, will 

 be found in Acadiensts, Volume XL, No. 4, pp. 245-8. 



