And at home, of course where they're training them, some of them- and I've seen them in the stables, a-- a-- a lad had two- four horses were drawn and he'd the legs all wrapped because they're swelling up.

And I never lost cows although some of n-- neighbours- I know one lad he- well the cow had her calf out behind the barn and some brush, and the coyote come and killed it and eat some of it.

But if I wounded one, or the lads wounded one and we couldn't find it, it was a real concern...

I-mean you always have to hunt with a group of people. <004> Well no I hunted ah some myself if the other lads weren't out. Ah, you don't have to hunt with a gang. You can hunt alone.

On Friday, the lads were hunting on my farm. So I go out behind the barn and a doe and a fawn come up through (laughs) and ah the fawn stopped in the lane so it was a patent fence so I shot it through the second and third rail.

To where the deer might go and a couple of lads go through the bush maybe with a dog or two and when the deer comes out, you shoot it if you can.

But it wasn't a wild calf and we knew that when we loaded it. So I landed at the sale barn and there was a lad there that bought animals that weren't that well so I talked to him if he'd be interested.

I-- it was really not well but this lad that bought those things was a vet and he bought a lot of animals that weren't that well and would take them home and get them healthy again.

Well now they have a pipeline although I know one lad that still uses horses and another lad uses a tractor

He was a retired president of United-States and this was at ah, Gettysburg where his farm was. So another lad and I stopped and there was somebody else there…

I-guess. N-- now Doctor-Dill, was a doctor. His son Jess wrote a book about the doctor, eh? And in that book, they say something about Riley. And Jess was just a young lad, but he wrote the book and he said that he ah, thought it was kind of a strange name...

Interviewer: What was your typical day like? Speaker: I wasn't a typical young lad. Interviewer: Okay what did you do? Speaker: Well, when I started in grade-seven, I had a sore knee and eventually, it got me down in the civic hospital.

They (laughs)- like my mother and father bought this place which would be New-Year's morning sixty- in nineteen-thirteen or the end of this year, they legally took it over. But if there hadn't have been some young lads here, they wouldn't have bought the place.

…and he said, "There's somebody important either going or coming" because there was a coloured lad come out in a golf cart and open the gate, so it was Eisenhower.

Cha-- uncle-Chalmers phoned up my dad one Saturday dinner time and said, "Could I get one of the lads in and wheel some dry wood into the house for me- into the woodshed."

Yeah. One lad come into our yard one day want to know if I'd sell that horse. He says, "Can you ride her?" I say, "You think you're a rider?

Young lad used to come to us and tell us first- first prize given to the best step dancer, Jordan-Morgan.

But anyway, we get onto the dance floor and we- well we practically (inc) the lads 'cause they were all (inc). And we got them through the square anyway and got them down and i-- and I said to- turned around Chad, I said, "Is that the first one or the second one?"

But anyway, we were sitting there talking, the two boys come in and Earl come over and he was stand- talking to me for a minute. And the other lad said, "I told you to leave her alone," to Earl and Earl says, "I'm not leaving her alone." So anyway, that was fine.

So I told him to buzz off that night and I was standing back in the- with the crowd of the girls and Earl come along and he put him arm on my shoulder, he says, "Come on red, I want to dance." So oh my God, we get up on a square dance but fun we had putting those lads through the square.