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Rh brought black servants with them who had fought for Britain. The negro who polishes boots or sells Bear River cherries is descended from these "Black Pioneers" and probably lives in the African village of Jordantown, a mile out of Digby.

The Loyalist grave-yard shows some archaic head-stones. One of them bears the punctilious inscription,

The ready mathematician will quickly perceive that had the youth lived but 18 or 19 days and 1403 minutes longer—less some seconds, he would have completed his seventeenth year.

Old Trinity is the historic church of the town. In former times, sittings, to be retained, had to be occupied at least once in three months by the owner. The aisles were so narrow, records a local scribe, that pews were shortened when crinolines came into fashion, which so embroiled the congregation that, as a consequence, many forswore the Anglican for a radically different faith.

On the water-front is a quaint book-shop whose outer walls are pasted with the eccentric protests of its owner against acts of the councillors and the conduct of village affairs. "Miss Cousins' forum," the Digby folk call it. The Paul Yates