et again, at the Executive Council Board, members of
the same Administration. Another twenty-five years roll by, and the
principal is prime minister of Canada, while one of the students is
lieutenant-governor of the great province of Ontario, the other his
chief adviser, and all three are decorated by Her Majesty for
distinguished services to the state.

The times were rough. In Macdonald's first case, which was at Picton,
he and the opposing counsel became involved in an argument, which,
waxing hotter and hotter, culminated in blows. They closed and fought
in open court, to the scandal of the judge, who immediately instructed
the crier to enforce order. This crier was an old man, personally much
attached to Macdonald, in whom he took a lively interest. In pursuance
of his duty, however, he was compelled to interfere. Moving towards
the combatants, and circling round them, he shouted in stentorian
tones, 'Order in the court, order in the court!' adding in a low, but
intensely sympathetic voice as he passed near his protege, 'Hit him,
John!' I have heard Sir John Macdonald {9} say that, in many a
parliamentary encounter of after years, he has seemed to hear, above
the excitement of the occasion, the voice of the old crier whispering
in his ear the words of encouragement, 'Hit him, John!'

In 1837 the rebellion broke out, and Macdonald hastened to give his
services to the cause of law and order. 'I carried my musket in '37,'
he was wont to say in after years. One day he gave me an account of a
long march his company made, I forget from what place, but with Toronto
as the objective point. 'The day was hot, my feet were blistered--I
was but a weary boy--and I thought I should have dropped under the
weight of the flint musket which galled my shoulder. But I managed to
keep up with my companion, a grim old soldier, who seemed impervious to
fatigue.'

In 1838 took place the notorious Von Shoultz affair, about which much
misunderstanding exists. The facts are these. During the rebellion of
1837-38 a party of Americans crossed the border and captured a windmill
near Prescott, which they held for eight days. They were finally
dislodged, arrested, and tried by court-martial. The quartermaster of
the insurgents was a man named Gold. He {10} was taken, as was also
Von Shoultz, a Polish gentleman. Gold had a brother-in-law in
Kingston, named Ford. Ford was anxious that some effort should be made
to defend his rel