Miss  Karley  (now  Mrs. Kendrick,  of  Comber,  Ont.)
sends  the  following  reminiscences  of  these  days  :

"  It  was  in  my  second  year  of  teaching  at  Glen  Buell
that  I  first  met  W. J. Hall. He  called  at  my  school  one
morning  and  told  me  how  he  had  worked  at  learning  a


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trade  until  his  health  failed  and  he  had  feared  consump
tion. His  education,  he  said,  was  very  limited,  but  if  I
wouldn't  put  him  in  the  second  class  he  would  like  to
come  to  school. I  assured  him  everything  would  be
satisfactory,  and  the  next  morning  I  had  one  more  big
boy  added  to  our  number. I  think  he  was  nineteen
years  old  at  this  time,  looking  very  thin  and  pale. He
was  quite  backward,  having  little  knowledge  of  gram
mar,  history,  or  geography,  and  was  therefore  quite  un
fitted  for  the  senior  classes,  but  'Jimmy,'  as  we  all  famil
iarly  called  him,  was  ever  active,  and  while  the  juniors
were  being  instructed  in  these  subjects  we  always  had
his  attention,  and  it  was  really  astonishing  how  rapidly
he  progressed. I  think  he  passed  into  the  high  school
at  Christmas,  1880. There  was  something  endearing
about  Jimmy's  disposition. He  had  no  enemies — every
one  loved  him,  and  those  who  knew  him  best  loved  him
most. I  boarded  at  Mr. Gilroy's,  and  Jimmy  used  fre
quently  to  come  there  to  get  help  in  his  lessons,  and  to
visit  the  sick  room  of  Mrs. Gilroy's  mother,  who  was  an
invalid  for  several  years. She  was  a  pious  Quaker  lady,
and  was  quite  well-versed  in  simple  healing  arts. She
took  an  especial  interest  in  Jimmy,  and  many  an  hour
he  spent  gathering  herbs  for  her,  and  making  them  into
simple  decoctions  and  syrups. People  often  urged  him
to  aim  at  becoming  a  minister  of  the  Gospel,  and  I  be
lieve  his  inclination  strongly  led  him  that  way. Perhaps
his  mother's  wishes,  together  with  the  advice  of  this
dear  old  Quaker  friend,  had  an  influence  upon  him  to
become  a  doctor. '  Thou  wast  born  to  be  of  great  use
to  mankind,  William  James,'  she  would  say. '  Nature
has  made  thee  a  physician  ;  thou  must  minister  to  both
body  and  soul.'-

"  One  day  1  remember  telling  him  I  expected  to  see


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him  write  M.D. after  his  name  yet. 