Cape Breton's Magazine

rah MacDermott MacAskill.) Well, she hadn't been feeling that well that spring. She used to look after the garden herself, her flower garden pretty well by herself, pastime. So I helped her. I made up young beds for her and helped her to fertilize the garden and plant the flowers, and everything was blooming nicely. And then about July, one day, Shep came over and got into the garden and started digging with all four feet. You know, going in the bed, sods flying here and there, all four paws going, and he was a big dog. He ruined the bed. So I ran to the back door where we kept the shotgun. I was going to shoot him through the open window. I was going to finish him off there and then. And, aw, my mother caught me by the arm, "Oh, no, no. Phillip will feel so bad if you shoot him." And I said, "Phillip won't know anything about it." But, I think she just didn't want the gun fired off in the house. Well, I didn't shoot him, but before summer was over she wished that I had. He ruined all the beds in the garden. He came over more than once like that, couldn't chase him away, but that didn't do any good, he'd be back again the next day. I don't know why he used to do that, but that's what he'd do. He ruined the garden. He was part collie, and I don't know what the other part would be, just dog. He was brown, tawny coloured, white feet. He was a big dog. He was about two feet at the shoul? der. He was as long as from here to the end of the bed, easily three feet, no, he was more than three feet from nose to tail. He wasn't very popular with the Sweets, the family who came to live with Phillip. They just wanted to be rid of him. He was totally useless and he was a nuisance. Danny and Joan Hathaway want to thank John and the late Geor? die MacAskill for sharing this song and information with them, as well as Geordie's wife, Ruth, for her help and hospitality. Long-Lasting Gifts! from Cape Breton's Magazine CapeBreton LIVES A Book of Great Voices 45 Cape Bretoners talk alx)ut their lives in this power? ful book. Katie Margaret Gillis, Dan Alex Mac? Leod, Archie Neil Chisholm, Mar? guerite Gallant, Dr. Austin MacDon? ald.... Mine rescue teamwork, 50 years at sea, tales of sor? cery, wit, and hard work.... $22.35 Cape Breton's MAGAZINE WRECK COVE . NOVA SCOTIA Edited & Published by Ronald Caplan with the help of Bonnie Thompson • Belle Maclntyre Paul Cranford ??Carol Kennedy AUGUST 1991 Cape Breton s Magazine is published four times a year at Wreck Cove, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia BOC IHO by Cape Breton's Magazine Lim? ited. Publications Mail Registration No. 3014. GST #R100795483. Available on microfilm from Micromedia Ltd., Toronto, Ontario. Dis? tributed throughout Cape Breton Island and by subscription by Cape Breton's Magazine. Distributed in mainland Nova Scotia and P. E. I. by H. H. Marshall Ltd. Yes, you can collect for Cape Breton's Maga? zine, but please send us a letter of proposal first. We cannot be respon? sible for unrequested manuscripts, photographs, or tapes. James D. Gillis Cape Breton GIANT. A Cape Breton classic! An early oral historian, James D. GilUs sought out those who knew both the story and the legends of Giant Angus MacAskill. Then, not finding quite enough for a book, he used elements of information about the Giant as an ex? cuse to write about his other two passions • Scottish Heritage and Cape Breton Island! 80 pages. $8.00 2 Great Shipwreck Narratives in 1 Great Bool Prenties' Narrative, 1780