I'd show them how. I'd show them how but some of them think I'm crazy if I show them. No, I'd show- (inc) this young lad with me yesterday, when his dad went to (inc)-College, that's the guy that I was talking about earlier.

I'd show them how. I'd show them how but some of them think I'm crazy if I show them. No, I'd show- (inc) this young lad with me yesterday, when his dad went to (inc)-College, that's the guy that I was talking about earlier. He went to (inc)-College and then he come home, nothing to do so him and I clipped sheep for a few years.

No. Was not five and six- five and six was a (inc) school. Seven and eight was in Naismith and then high-school in Almonte. That's where I went. And then there was two or three lads went to (inc) college so I stayed home so then the guy- one of the guys- same age as I, he went to college I stayed home.

o we went in around into the house and over to the double sinks in the kitchen, wash your hands, eh? Young lad was with me, turned on the water tap. There's no water. Young lad says, "We got a problem." "What's the problem?" "Can't wash your hands."

One year I give them- one lad, I give them eighty-five hundred dollars for the year. Right? There's- I kept track of it, right? So then, yeah, "Oh, you can't claim that."

Raking hay. Eh, you cut hay, you have to rake hay before you bale it. And this little young lad- this- the other lad's brother was with me then over at the other ro-- other home place, busy raking hay. So we're all done heading for home.

S-- the- you don't mind helping anybody out but cripes, there's got to be some loophole somewhere. Well one worse than that, is (inc) same- one with the same kids. One of the same lad big lad. What was it? Well I've had livestock here since nineteen-eighty-eight here, mom's home place.

So the father...yeah, the old lad's son said to us, after his quote like that, "You need a little bit of everything and not much of anything to make it work." And that's just about right. 'Cause some of the commodities, eh if price of lamb goes down, well the beef will carry you through or-whatever.

So then grandpa sitting beside him eh, he got a chuckle out, he say- he spoke right then, eh? You darn well he wasn't (laughs)- he wasn't Canadian either. (Coughs) It was pretty comi-- he was straight from Scotland, that lad. So this young lad thought grandpa and I were-

So then grandpa sitting beside him eh, he got a chuckle out, he say- he spoke right then, eh? You darn well he wasn't (laughs)- he wasn't Canadian either. (Coughs) It was pretty comi-- he was straight from Scotland, that lad. So this young lad thought grandpa and I were...

So we went in around into the house and over to the double sinks in the kitchen, wash your hands, eh? Young lad was with me, turned on the water tap. There's no water. Young lad says, "We got a problem." "What's the problem?" "Can't wash your hands."

That's right. Another can of worms is a few years ago. Well the young lads are getting scarce. Scarcer. I have three, having four little f-- three guys, good little guys. Fellow says you're breaking the rules 'cause there's supposed to be eighteen- sixteen when they drive a tractor.

The grandparents were there too at this couple's place. So the old guy, the grandfather of this kid comes out…to us. Must've been ten or a dozen of us young lads all sitting in the kitchen. And this old lad comes out and- the guy called us laddies. This Herald man in Carleton, Dane-Herald's father come out and he says, "Laddies, I don't care if you don't learn nothing, but the one thing I'm going-"

Yeah, brought him home. Took him over to the lad over here the trapper over at Clayton. Told me he was interested in this fisher, "It's yours." Get rid of him. Took it over to him. "Oh," he says, "That's a juvenile."

That's how dad as a young lad get into sheep clipping I-guess (laughs). Make a few dollars.

One day w-- (laughs) the last day of the hunt, we were up in the bush there. Me and another lad was standing talking and the dogs were gone. We're waiting on them coming back. And along comes this four wheeler, mm-hm. Game warden.

ou knew she was on the line. And they said (coughs)- one lad asked the other, "You got any butter?"

There was another fellow (laughs) two (inc) dog biscuits one day for the lad that chased the d-- the deer out to him. Oh yes, there was a few things like that but um, one lad never got across the Clyde-River without falling into it.

These two lads mated up and they ah- there was a clock. An eight-day clock sitting right close to the telephone and when she took the receiver off, you'd hear the clock going, "Tick, tick, tick, tick."

They weren't filled. We told him what we were doing and waited. One lad was a way out to pay (inc) and the other fellow was warden of the county. And h-- that was their ah banquet that night. So he was away to it. And there were more, we were in the bush with no licenses.