Interviewer: What twister? Speaker: Well, the barn next door to us blew- it went right down. And the horse- I think one or two horses were killed because they were under the granary but I didn't- mom- some of us were in the back lane or-something-or-other and I guess the sky got really scary looking.

You wanted to have a job and ah, so there's a-- a lot of grain and ah, uncle-Gregor said, "Well why don't you just stay in the granary and just kind of keep, keep it shovelled back" and-so-on, so that was fine. But by the time they were ready to go in for supper, ah, I was sick, all the dust.

And of course you weren't doing that you'd take ah just a little piece of stove wood and that was your wheel of your car and you would take a little piece of chain out of the junk bin in the granary and tie that on the soles of your boot and that was your chains because you were always getting stuck, and ah, you'd drive this car around and get stuck and you'd be spinning your wheels with these chains on your feet and- and-so-on.

Speaker: So you would feed that into the thrashing mill, with forks, you-know and my job was on the bagger, and it was a burlap bags, you would set that would catch the grain coming out, and then you would carry that from your barn, where you doing it, to the granary and put it in the- in big bins.

No, I haven't done...what I've been doing, I used to knit, crochet afghans and they were the small squares, the granny-squares and I always crocheted enough and made a pillow cover and always sent a couple of those or one of those anyway each year and this year I'm sending, I've already done it, three long scarves with a fringe on the end you know.

Speaker: Um one of the things the girls had to do is either knit or crochet, and I started them off in the crouchering department doing the granny-square. Interviewer: Is that ah where you make like a tube? Speaker: No, this is where you make a square. And the trouble with that was that I made them read the instructions first. Like I showed them what the- what the stitches were and how to do- how to do the stitches, but then I handed each one of them a pattern for this granny-square and they had to learn to read the pattern and do what the pattern said.

Um, they drop their 'g 's', they 'who' and 'whom' and 'may I' and 'can 't I' and I, I could go on forever. I- it just, I 'm not a perfectionist but it just- it grates on my ear is what it does.

I would like to go to the Dublin," and he said, "Oh you have a day pass. You can travel anywhere. Get on the buses and do- " and I didn 't know, you know. Being a greenhorn, we didn 't know. So anyhow, we went back into Dublin and we did our- our shopping and then we went back home. Yeah, oh yeah, we had a wonderful time.

I was buffing the floor 'cause I was working housekeeping eh, and he threw a slipper at me. Thinking nothing of it, just greenhorn, I bring him his slipper back and I says "Henry don't do that because I'm doing the floor". I start buffing the floor, he throws his slipper again (laughs). I bring it back and I no sooner said "Henry please, you-know, don't do it again" he spit on me and jumped me.

Then- then- then that's where they- well the wind was strong, shouldn't be up there and not picking up- (laughs) if you have a piece of plywood and it's pulling you, let it go. I don't know why ah- and he wasn't a greenhorn, like I mean he's been working, doing that stuff for quite a few years. He wasn't a young kid. He- you get some young kids they start they come on the job and nobody is- is telling them anything eh.

Interviewer: Green-horn is another mining term. Someone's who's fresh. Fresh at the mine is a green-horn. Speaker: Yeah, but a green- green-horn term comes from ah um rearing cattle.

Yeah. So there's- you-know, and you always hear the grousing from the business community. "Oh, they cleaned downtown Liskeard but they didn't clean Haileybury."

I have become a hunter. You-know, I never was but and I kept grousing about the deer eating my vegetables. And somebody said, "Well you should become a hunter." And that was always in our family tradition, to um- you put up your own meat whether it was your- from y-- these- do you know the book um, um "Omnivore's Dilemma"?

Interviewer: Uh-huh. How did they take out the stumps? Speaker: Eh? Interviewer: How did- Speaker: Chopped them out of the stone with a- an axe. And this old grubhoe. Grubhoe, they called it. You couldn't break it, you-know.

Interviewer: Uh-huh. How did they take out the stumps? Speaker: Eh? Interviewer: How did- Speaker: Chopped them out of the stone with a- an axe. And this old grubhoe. Grubhoe, they called it. You couldn't break it, you-know.

Like the- no the frame- the- the foundation was built and then there was this like gully in between and I fell down in between and I fell down in there so they had to come and get me out and I was always getting in trouble and, ah- but then we used to have all these kids on the street and we used to play road- hockey a lot and, um, hide-and-seek and tag and...

Ah, well yeah we've had the flood here, but really doesn't affect us here we- like this- whole gully down in here it'll fill full o' water once it floods up in the spring but. We're actually pretty fortunate that way. It really doesn't affect us.

Speaker: We used to slide a lot there. That used to be a gr-- great big gully at one time. It's been all filled. Yeah. Interviewer: I was going to say, it was like- I'm thinking about it now. I'm like, "Where would you go sliding? I don't understand." Speaker: (laughs) Yeah, that used to be a gully.

And- so you just ran and- and played the whole time for recess and lunch and also too, in the winter time there was the gully.

But yeah, that was the big thing in the winter time was- was- was playing in the gully going sliding and summer time and- and spring or spring and fall it was playground.