I would invite clarification re a word I read in Joseph Small’s Diary of Burgeo, in the context of his description of Hunt’s Island inhabitants. The passage in question is the following:
“John Crewe came, no doubt, at the same date, 1846. I remember the wife also. The Crewes were find people, as were the others of Hunt’s…”
My question is with regard to the word ‘find’, an obvious typographic error, which might have misrendered ‘fine’ or else ‘kind’.
I would like to know the word employed in the original text, as I would like to quote the passage in a eulogy on July 9th in Sydney, Nova Scotia. My aunt, Ruth MacDonald Beaton, was a daughter of Myra Crewe, whose father James Joshua Crewe had emigrated to Neil’s Harbour, Cape Breton around 1880. The Crewes’ legacy of kindness and good-humour were strongly perpetuated in my Aunt Ruth who died in May, 2022, a mere six weeks from her 105th birthday.
If anyone can supply the correct word — probably ‘fine’ or ‘kind’ –, I would appreciate the clarification, so as to avoid ambiguity in delivering my tribute on July 9th.