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have since joined the great majority. Possibly the 

 veteran hunter, Pitre Portugais, who for half a century 

 glories in having each spring flushed the first snipe, 

 may more than once have knocked at the door of the 

 mossy old manor, on his way to the snipe marsh. 



2. The ancient chatelain had the attributes of, and 

 met with, the respect accorded to a good seigneur of 

 the old regime, without owning a seigniory. He held 

 important trusts, and in his quality of Commissaire des 

 Petites Causes and Justice of the Peace dispensed 

 justice evenly ; more than once the chosen arbitrator 

 in parish feuds. 



o. The " unmarried brother, " who assisted his 

 brother in bringing up his patriarchal family, died in 

 1851. His younger brother, W. H. LeMoine expired at 

 Yilla Saint Denis, Sillery, in 1870, aged 85. One of 

 his fair grand-daughters recently became the spouse of 

 Lieut.-Governor Angers, at Spencer Wood. 



•4. Two of the ladies present at the fite de famille 

 are now the wives of retired General officers ; Miss 

 Harriet LeMesurier, the wife of General Clifford ; 

 Miss Sophia Ashworth, the wife of General Pipon. 

 Their friend, Miss Caroline Lindsay, who married Major 

 Eoss, then of the 85th Foot, died in London, Ontario ; 

 her sister married Mr. W. Kingsford, the Historian. 



