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\n\nEllen’s Diary on May 23rd, 1955 talked about letting animals out for the spring, but, more crucially, the love that some Island farmers maintained for horses, even though more efficient options (i.e. tractors) were available to help complete farm tasks.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter months of confinement, some of the cattle-kind were let today to a spell of pasturing. And Sara, youngest mare of all, friend but not playmate of the children also saw blue sky above and felt again barnyard clay under-foot. It was a new experience for her, after long stabling, this spell in the open and the Family came to watch while in a fine play of spirits she tried out her paces.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Watch out! She may go over that fence,\u2019 we called to the children in their door-yard.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Isn\u2019t she pretty!\u2019 Granddaughter replied, quite lost in admiration for the moment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Elmer Gauthier 1950” from the personal collection of Marie Howatt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2018She has plenty of action\u2019 James, nearer us, offered. \u2018And I wouldn\u2019t doubt,\u2019 he nooded [sic] \u2018a fair-good bit of speed!… There was a time in my life, Ellen, when to own the like of her, in the shape she\u2019s in and idle, would be in the nature of a dream. But now, a driver on a farm is little more than a toy- there isn\u2019t even time to break them! I\u2019m sure \u2018his thrift was coming uppermost now\u2019 I don\u2019t see why we keep so many. Still,\u2019 he smiled, \u2018I wouldn\u2019t consider we were farming at all without them.\u2019<\/em>\u201d
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Ellen\u2019s Diary, May 23, 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: islandnewspapers.ca<\/em>
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