stay right here for a while. So we sat
down on the steps. One by one the miners
came along with “Hello, Father Pat, it’s
darned good to see you again, and remarks
like that, until soon we had the crowd that
I had suggested we should collect, and they
all stayed, until finally he had to give them
a real talk from the steps. And that was
the sort of thing that happened repeatedly
wherever he went.

SLEPT IN A SHACK

“In Rossland, by the way, he slept in a
shack up an alley, a most untidy place,

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because he had given the two rooms the
women had provided him with under his
church to a man named Green who was
the organist and was a very sick man. This
Green was quite a character, a Mus. Bac.
who could give a whole concert “on his own.”
Otherwise he was a misfit. It may have
been to Green that the good father gave
the fine, new coat that his congregation
insisted upon his accepting when his own
was threadbare. I’m not sure. I know the
incident was talked about and the women
were not too pleased at the destination of
their gift, and Father Pat—who had worn
the new coat to church for several weeks—
was rather shame-faced when he had to
confess what he had done with it.

One concluding and amusing incident
from Mr. Whiteside’s memories: “The Rev.
William Robins came out from England.
He was quite green to our life. He was an
Oxford man—Magdalen College, I think—
and had been curate at the famous St. Mary
Redcliffe’s Church at Bristol. He is now
Archdeacon of St. Albans, London. He
came as a missionary to open St. Jude’s
Church at Greenwood. While in Green-
wood he lived with me and I found him
a particularly fine chap. I visited him again
in England years afterwards and recalled
this incident to his memory. Just after his
arrival, the story goes that Father Pat took
him upon his first great journey on horse-
back through the hills. They set out one
evening from Rock Creek for the West
Fork of the Kettle River and ‘as it grew
dark they lost the road ten or twelve
miles outside Rock Creek. So Father Pat
suggested they camp for the night. In the
morning Robins awoke to find himself
alone. Getting up, he saw the road clearly
defined only 20 or 30 yards away. He
followed it and soon arrived at the West-
brook Hotel, where he found Father Pat
breakfasting on ham and eggs and laughing
heartily at the trick he had played on the
greenhorn. Ultimately Robins fitted into
his new life admirably and became a very
good rider.”

Judge Forin, speaking as one who had
to administer the law in those hectic Ross-
land years, as well as an intimate friend
of Father Pat there and in New West-
minster and Victoria, said, “He was a man

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