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hill, and after gazing at the surroundings in blank depair, sat down upon the damp moss with her babe in her arms and shed the only tears she had shed since the outbreak of the Revolution.

To the gentler spirits among the Loyalist founders of the town of Parr the outlook may well have seemed disheartening. They had come, many of them, from the fertile banks of the Hudson, the meadow lands of New Jersey, the vineyards of Maryland and the plantations of the Sunny South. But to James Simonds and his associates of 1762, as to many of the Massachusetts and Connecticut Loyalists of 1783, the contrast between their earlier and later surroundings was not so marked. In their veins, too, there flowed the blood of the old Pilgrim fathers, nor had they lost the influence of the traditions handed down from the days of the Mayflower and the landing at Plymouth Rock. The same determined self-reliance that had enabled their forefathers to make for themselves homes about the shores of Massachusetts Bay sustained them in their task of carving out for themselves a home amid the rocky hillsides that surround the harbor of St. John.

But when James Simonds, in 1760, first made up his mind to try his fortune here the place was indeed a lonely spot, and could our old pioneer today revisit the scene of his toils and difficulties and behold the changes time had wrought what would be his wonder and astonishment? Imagine with what mingled feelings he would view the wharves that line our shores; the ocean steamships lying in the channel; the grain elevators that receive the harvests of Canadian wheat-fields two thousand miles away; the streets traversed by electric cars and pavements traversed by thousands of hurrying feet, hundreds of bicyclists darting hither and thither at every corner; squares tastefully laid out and adorned with flowers; public buildings and