The School, Well-digging, and a Picnic 



had to be chosen and approved by the district 

 council. This was found to be unsuitable, owing 

 to the incompetence of the district council dele- 

 gates, and the work had to be redone. 



Then a contractor who undertook the job 

 backed out, and a firm that promised to find 

 the money on the bond issue took so long in 

 doing it that the district member of the Pro- 

 vincial Legislature had to be appealed to. 



There was some doubt, too, as to the number 

 of children being sufficient to meet the require- 

 ments of the Act. 



Under all these difficulties, the trustees and 

 their secretary-treasurer had stuck to their 

 work, and the scheme had now arrived at the 



ge of requiring a well. 



good well and a bam are the ambition of the 

 pioneer settler, but in the early stage (unless 

 it happens that water is near enough to the sur- 

 face to reach by digging) it is usually beyond 

 his reach, the cost by a professional well-digger with 

 a boring machine being about one dollar per foot. 



Under these circumstances, a good well at the 

 schoolhouse is of course a great boon to the 

 neighbours. 



The outfit had arrived at the site a day or so 

 previously, and we all set out to see how they 

 were getting on. 



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