Yeah, we skidded all our logs with horses pretty well until the latter years and then we had a- a different kind of machine.

Well, generally at that time pretty well it was country and western, but it was usual-- ah, it was- the- the strength- the strongest station I can remember is that Wheeling West Virginia.

Well, in Matt's opinion there was no First Nations people here, no at that time but, um- but Perth, you see, was pretty well established, I think, by that time. ... And so, they were trying to push people farther up this way.

Sometimes we ate before we done the chores, but- and ah, my father, ah, if he were home, we might have supper before, but he didn't- chores wasn't his thing. ... And he could plan it to be home when everything was pretty well done.

Ah, they'd live with one of the local homes, eh? ... There was one lady in Elphin that pretty well looked after each teacher as they came and so-

When it got too hard to crank anymore, it's pretty well froze (laughs).

Actually, I think, ah- I think one good day with a- a good game would- would pretty well clear it up. And then, of course, the- you'd go and help the next farmer do theirs and then the next farmer do theirs and make the circuit of ah- yeah.

Interviewer: So when you were growing up, the mills were on their way out, were they? Pretty well. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well, yeah, pretty well.

Interviewer: Well, is there anything you'd like to add? ... Speaker: Oh, I don't think so. I think we pretty well covered everything when I was growing up

Interviewer: Yeah. So you've got Irish through your blood. Speaker: Pretty well. Yeah. ... Yeah, pretty well.

Interviewer: What are games would you play? Maybe at the end of year? Speaker: Ah, just b-- the baseball pretty well. ... Sometimes they'd have a race but- some races but no, pretty well.

Interviewer: Did anybody get really sick in your family that you had to call the doctor? Speaker: Oh, yeah. We got j-- we got jaundice one time there, that's- Interviewer: Oh. ... The whole family? Speaker: Pretty well.

Interviewer: Did you carry that around? How- how did- or was there one on every table? Speaker: Oh, usually have one upstairs, one downstairs and you, like- yeah. ... One or two of them (inc). Yeah but, pretty well you'd have- ... The only thing they worried about was taking fire was, ah, pipes- the- of the stove.

Well, we c-- we used kept the pipe, keep them pretty well clean, but we had long stretch of pipes, you-know. So you had to be careful they didn't take fire. I set them on fire one morning before everybody got up. (laughs)

Interviewer: And you would have to get your younger siblings ready too? Speaker: Yes. They pretty well- you-know.

We always called everything the streets. And when I went to university I was corrected when people told me in the front of a class that I had a problem with the word streets. Because for me, streets where you drive and where you walk are pretty well the same. S-- s-- there's a sidewalk and a road, I know now but there was no difference. Were no- there was no cleaning of the, um- the walkways.

So it wasn't common to get out of the country, okay? Um, if you didn't walk, or if you didn't- you were- you were really snowbound pretty well for the winter.

... they got married and then he didn't really like going out to the dances so much, but, you see, he w-- he had been just doing that to fish, to get to know her, okay? She played the field pretty well, she wasn't serious about anybody, okay? She just loved to dance. Mom was a dancing fool. So that's the Irish part.

Yeah, I think he used to go to Almonte fair and some of the other ones too and, ah- ... Ah, I guess pretty well- ... Spoil the day anyway. (laughs)

Interviewer: (laughs) How many kids were there? Speaker: Just my brother and I. ... Ten years between us, so. ... He was pretty well out of the nest before.