By Mr. J. B. Fairbairn, P. M.

If any further evidence were wanting to justify my statements as to husbandry being the calling of callings, I will step across the boundary to the west and size up in a small way the Crago’s. William Crago who so recently paid the debt to nature that we all owe, commenced in a small way. They are, too an English family and must have taken up their abode not later than 1840. I am not well posted about his father but recall him as a great sufferer from ill health. He remarried Mrs. Colton, moved into this town and died here. His son, William Crago, obtained by purchase the place on which the late Zibena Fraser lived and by care and frugality, also obtained additional lands leaving a handsome legacy to each of his children. The same remark as to fertility applies with equal force as to his neighbor, Mr. Osborne. I had a good deal of dealing with Mr. Crago finding him careful and correct in all matters of accounts. It seemed a hard fate that both he and Mrs. Crago should have been removed from their happy surroundings so early in life. She was a most hardworking industrious woman. No doubt the change is to a happier state and a happier clime.

I cannot pass from this locality without mention of my old friend, the late Mr. Richard Souch. Many a long interesting conversation I had with him-a shrewd quiet cautious, kindly soul that he was . He was for many years a personal caller at the office and we often discussed the passing topics of the time. He was one who moved along without jangle or far. His course reminds me of what I have noticed in Trout fishing sometimes: a town youth will go out for that sport wit a grand paraphanalia perhaps a ten dollar fishing rod, corresponding reel and lines and it may be some little country urchin with a branch off some tree, three or four feet long , a line of common string and an ordinary hook will catch ten trout to his one. So well and deftly without attracting notice did Mr. Souch whip the golden stream on which he trod as to fill his basket in his quiet way, full to overflowing. His bank account swelled to large proportions so that when he finally passed his accounts bef ore the Celestial Auditor he left his heirs a large amount of money. He was one of the valorous volunteers who marched to the notes of fife and drum to meet the rebel forces at Toronto in 1837. Of the two sons, one went into the Ontario Bank and after years of service in that line had to with draw from all work owing to ill health and I am sorry to know that he is still an invalid. Having left Bowmanville so early in life I did not have the opportunity of knowing him excepting by sight. A friend who travelled with him and Mrs. Souch on the upper lakes some years ago told me that he found them both companionable fellow-voyagers, they being most desirable people to meet. You would not expect anything else from one brought up in Darlington. The other, Richard H. Souch, who is on the homestead, has many of the traits of his father and has so added to the original pie by his business ability as to become perhaps one of the richest residents of Darlington.

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