So I kind-of wondered "What on earth are them things?" So this kid says, "Pigeons". So I- we don't eat pigeon around home so I wondered to them, "What are you going to do with them?" This other kid says, "Eat them." "Oh," I says, "If I was hungry and had to eat pigeon, I'd eat them ones that flew out of here." And this other little guy speaks up and says, "You can't eat them, they're tough." So how in the devil is mummy going to cook that thing.

Where am I from from the down under? Where am I from from the down under. And I cannot think twice what he's talking about. So I was sitting at the time I say "Under the table" (laughs) or what it was, eh? And he says, "No," so then I says, "I think you and I got the same problem." To this guy. Didn't know him at all. "What do you mean?" I says "You got an accent, people think I've got an accent too that we must come from the same place."

Speaker: "So where you from?" "Oh I'm from Southern Australia and you come from the northern part and him and I just never met." Which I though that was kind-of funny. "No no" I says "I'm just fifty miles west of Ottawa."

Well she said, "I'm a- I'm a farm girl." And she says, "I hate the city." She says, "I just can't take it." She say, "I like the country." I say, "Well at least you know where food and-stuff come from." Yeah, I says lots of student have no clue. Ah- how can you do that? You can't do anything about it. But this- this girl says- and she's no trouble getting work 'cause they know she work.

Speaker: Yes, I wanted to mention that to you also, because I had, ah, I had Melissa-O'Reilley here the other day, and Tim-O'Reilley had married a Cameron girl. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And she says, "Well, you'll have to mention the dairy," and I says, "Well, you-know, you're right, I will." Interviewer: Yeah, yes. Speaker: Now, hm, see, ah, God, I must have the dairy- oh yeah, here we are, Cameron's-Dairy, forty-six. Here- here we go. Cameron's milk rig destroyed in nineteen-thirty. (laughs)

And I asked him where he wanted the load. He said, "Well, I wanted sitting here, close to the house as you can." I said, "Well, put your foot down where you want it." So he put his foot down and I says, "That's where you want the back of the load," and he says "Yeah, that's- I don't want it get too close in case it hits it."

And one time- but I- I could talk just like Madeline. Madeline phoned, and I said- "Hello? Is that you, Mallory?" And I says, "Yes. And how- how's your leg today?" "Well, it's not too bad today." And I went right on with her, never knew the difference, (inc) at all.

Speaker: And so I- you-know, well one- it was penicillin I gave him. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And when I pulled the needle out, the penicillin shot back out to the hole and I shoved my finger over the hole (laughs), I says, you-know, what else do you do? (Laughs). My finger wasn't sterilized or-anything-else. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: The kid lived so that was (laughs)- that was all that mattered but I brought one of the needles home and my sister is a nurse and she just about died ...

It reminds me of me where I got these boxes with stuff in. He had a wooden box like this- today it'd be in a computer. With these, with these cards in it. He pulls out de Havilland's card. He says "What's that say?" I says "Don't send us anybody under twenty-one." So I says "I don't know b-- nothing about that. They hired me. And they know how old I am." So he said- he was mumbling and grumbling there and he gave me the stuff I needed and away I went.

Speaker: I remember hav-- getting my car stuck and ah went back to find it the next morning, all was sticking out was the- the snow bank was the ah arrow. Interviewer: The what? Speaker: Just the antenna on the ra-- radio antenna. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: I says "It's here somewhere, we better be careful." (Laughs) Interviewer: What about um- Speaker: My dad ran on the- he was the foreman so we took the snow plough up to get it, but-

Now he wants to learn how to quilt too, I says when I have my own blanket, then he can learn, eh?

And we were walking and then all of a sudden these two big lights come towards you. Well I got scared, I says, "What the hell, who is that?" Well they were smaller, and when you're getting closer they were getting bigger, eh?

Yeah, he was- I told him, I says one time I say "Well do you want to bake?" "Okay!" You-know he's so happy that I let him bake, eh? So- Mm-hm.

And I said, this has to happen. And he, finally he give in. So then I says, "Okay how does this happen." So we got to connect with the ah- the ah- the township over there right? The council. Approved it and all that.

Interviewer: I wonder, will kids still call cabbage 'kapusta'? Speaker: Yes. And look at, right across. So when I say the word, and I always did this to people I says ah, "I want to say- I'm going to say a word, a slavic word. You tell me which ah language I'm speaking." And I'll say, "kapusta" right? And ah they right away will say, oh that's Polish.

... I was doing my speech and everything else, welcoming and said, "My home," ah or, "Our home is your home" you-know, all this kind of stuff. And ah, then I says okay it's time to go tobacco, and prime-minister's over there, and I go, and he goes I have (inc).

... the Indian- Indian-reserve. Ah, it's the Algonquin-tribe, eh? And so, ah, this one- after the first- first year I was there, there was an old- old- well, one of the ladies there, she was very involved in the community, one of the Indians, and I said to Sally, I says, "You-know," I says, um- I says, "Sally, this is an Indian co-- communit-- community," I says, "You-know," I says, "We should do something to make it more meaningful to the- to the Indian children," and-so-forth, so anyway, I says, "You-know," I says, ah- I says, "Well, we'll try to dress them- the kids- children, ah- in- in the Indian costume," you-know, in their Indian garb, eh?

Speaker: ... I says, "Well, we'll try to dress them- the kids- children, ah- in- in the Indian costume," you-know, in their Indian garb, eh? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: To bring up the- the- the- the- the figures for- you-know, for the- the creche, eh? The creche, eh? And I says, "You-know," I says, "No," so I says, "An Indian community," but, ah- but I says- and I says, "The- the infant should look like a- like an Indian." So she made a nice- I got a- got a doll for her, with- a dark doll, eh? You-know, dark?

... she's very good, I me-- sometimes they're very demanding and want all kinds of stuff, you-know, but this- this one, she's- she knows what she wants, and, ah- and I- I says, "You're- you're doing the right thing. You're not making it a great big ordeal where she's going to be in debt for the rest of the-"

And then- well, they marry themselves, but they- but they- but, ah- the co-- the consent has to be given, so once I looked up, and, ah, this man's brothers and sister and-so-forth were all laughing. All laughing and I said- I says with a smile, I says- I says- I says- I said, "I notice your brothers and sisters, and everybody in the church are laughing," and- and I says- I says, "you better look at your- I think there's something wrong, ah- you- you better look- look at your shoes, and all it was, both shoes: "h-e-l-p".