They were very good. Another night there were some young- when I was down- just not too long before I closed the store, there were some young lads that I didn't trust very far and they were acting very peculiarly.

Well he wasn't in on that, he was in stealing the pipe but this was the two boys off, the two airforce lads down there...

...they were always stealing his pipe so I got a cigar one hot day and I got these lads out in the boiler room, they were about nine or ten years old. And I lit the cigar and I gave it to them.

I said, "you don't get a chance to smoke a cigar like this every day and I kept them in there until the cigar was gone. And that night the one lad's father came down and he said "if you see my wife coming you better get out". He said "that kid of mine, he said he's just turned inside out there he's so sick."

Speaker 1: We have thirty-five years there. Speaker 2: I remember when I was just a young lad, he thrashed for twenty-five years in succession and that was just before he quit.

I ah- I don't know. I- I only know- I only know Jack. But anyway he had- I had this black and white picture of Jack and I and- and another young lad at ah- at the nursery school with Santa Claus.

Speaker: Yes it was yes. Ah no wait that was the lad's ah the men's was first-south. Interviewer: Oh okay. I remember the- the south um they had a- Speaker: Yeah you'd go straight in the front door and right down. Mm-hm yeah.

I can remember one day out in the front, way out in front of my apartment, they were sinking right into the asphalt, and ah, you- you-know, I went up there and the- the young lad's father wasn't home and ah, when he got home, I'll tell you, I can hear that young lad getting his back side tanned.

Well it was straight opposite from- from the Mcannany up, through the little laneway. That laneway that runs up beside the- the newspaper office. Yeah it was about straight- almost across from me.

I can remember over in Trenton when we had one there in the church, one tiny little lassie she is married now, but this little lassie started throwing, she was an angel and she started throwing straw at the other people in the scene.

I haven't been in the church in some years but they had black cassocks and they weren't too long, and this lassie's underneath her black cassock had on a wide white pantsuit you-see.

And I was part of that. I was probably part of the starting of working mothers and-that. So ah, there's a lot more latchkey kids now than there- than there- than there was. But yeah they- children are in some ways much smarter than- than we were.

Those two was all that we had. In the latter years I was there, we had two vice-principals, that's what they have now.

As far as I can see this house was building about eighteen-eighty-seven and it was built by I believe A.R. who was a brother of C.R. who owned the Richie-Company, the dry goods store, in its latter years [...] and my father bought this house I think in about eighteen-ninty-nine or somewhere around there.

We had one of them down here on the corner of George and Queen run by a man named D.W. for years and latterly that was run by W.B.H. who was a son of J.J.H. who had the shoe chain, you maybe have heard of him some time.

So, we'd just walk around all day, go through all the residential areas where there's no tourists. We'd just sit and have picnics and like, you-know, really cool things. Um, so I can't really say we did much because all we did was just walk and laugh our asses off. We'd go back to our hostel around like eight or nine at night, um in Florence we went out on a pub-crawl which was really fun, but basically like, we go back, talk about the day, look at some pictures and be like "all-right, goodnight. ""

... so I burst out laughing and- and I'm like "okay, maybe that'll stop him, maybe it'll make it really awkward" but like, this guy was not stopping so I'm like, laughing my ass off, I don't know what to do and I'm waiting for my friend to start laughing, I'm like "she has to have seen it by now," right? Not a word, I'm like, "that bitch fell asleep!"

... like this Spanish security guard and like, we're trying to explain to him what happened without being like rude, and we're like "We need another room, we cannot stay in our room." And um, everybody came up to help us out, obviously, 'cause we were standing in our underwear laughing our asses off, so, that's ah- yeah that was my humorous story.

Interviewer: Would it- could you tell us about church picnics and- Speaker: Oh my yes, they used to have church picnics and church lawn socials and all sorts of entertainment like that. We used to have a lot of fun. Interviewer: Can you tell us about a lawn social? That's a new- Speaker: Well, they have ah set up the tables outside and- and it was just an ordinary social only it was all outside. Oh, they'd have some little games to entertain the people. I forget what all they did have then.

Speaker: Oh it was interesting. Interviewer: How much trouble did you get into? Speaker: I think that- not from the school, but I- I think my bike was laid up for just night-time and weekends only.