BEGINS CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS 277 



We located at Baddeck for the summer and I immediately left for 

 the northern part of the island and lived with a Mr. McLeod and 

 made large collections and, afterwards, returned to Baddeck and 

 made that place my headquarters, from which I made many short 

 excursions on the island. One excursion took me down to Louis- 

 burg, the old French city, and another of greater length took me 

 to the North Cape. These were the longest trips I made and, 

 while on them, I was all the time taking notice of the capacity 

 and possibilities of the island for agricultural purposes, as well as 

 its natural history. By good fortune, Graham Bell, the originator 

 of the telephone, lived within a mile of our hotel and it was not 

 long before we made his acquaintance and we found that he and 

 his family were most enjoyable people. At this time, he was 

 working on a scheme of life-saving and had taught his daughters 

 how to give first aid and we considered it funny for the servant 

 man to be laid out on a bench and the young ladies rendering first 

 aid by moving his arms and forcing him to breathe, and we en- 

 joyed the attempts very much, but never took part in them. Mrs. 

 Bell was a deaf mute and very intelligent and she had been taught 

 by her husband, as, in his youth, he was a teacher of articulation 

 to the deaf mutes in various parts of Canada and the United 

 States. Mr. Bell was very anxious to get the people of the island 

 to pay more attention to agriculture than they did and asked me 

 if I would give a lecture at the school house and he would act as 

 chairman. I agreed and the lecture was arranged for. Mrs. 

 Bell was bound to go too, and, although she could not hear, ar- 

 rangements were made in the school house by which she sat op- 

 posite Mrs. Kenyon and Mrs. Kenyon repeated my lecture to 

 Mrs. Bell by articulation and, by this means, Mrs. Bell, the next 

 day, could tell me a good many things that I had said. While 

 Mr. Bell and I were walking down the street in the dark to the 

 school house, we came upon two men standing talking and one of 

 them said : "Are you going to the lecture?" And the other said : 

 "What is the use in a man's going to hear a man who has only 

 been here a couple of months?" Mr. Bell immediately spoke up 

 and said: "Come along, Jock, and you will hear more to-night 

 than you dreamed of before." But, whether the men came or 



t9 



