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.

I used to work with horses when I was a young lad, yeah. We had no tractors at that time. A-- all horses at-that-time, mm-hm.

If- if ah, like if he's robbing you or-something, like, hm. Like a raccoon, they're bad lads you-know, sometimes. Or porcupine when I had my cattle. I've had ah, my cow'll put the- their nose right in a raccoon- or ah, w-- what do you call that, with all the prickers there?

It was eight or ten cows or maybe four or five lad doing it, you-know-what-I-mean? Lots of help, and no money. Lots of help (laughs).

Like when I was growing up you mean? Oh yes. At that time, they- the laws wasn't as big as now but I remember when I was a young lad just say seventy years ago, some old lad would shoot a deer and everyone in the country'd get a little piece, because they had no refrigerators and so- and everybody help each other, eh?

No me either, unless a young lad was coming to my place with one and I'd borrow it for- to run around and fall off it and...

Nope, not that I know of. There was one young lad, a cripple, that lived in Martin-River. He got hurt out west and he lived there for a while, maybe that's- yeah there was a Reichert there. But he's moved back to Powassan.

And we ah we went- we found a couple of weeks ago, a lady who had a s-- home-schooled her children until I guess, by the look of the young lad, I say he might have been nine or-something-like-that. And they were- she was going to put them in the public school system and she was going back to school herself.

So that, and ah my brother getting mumps coming across the border and having, you-know- he's trying to be the- the nice guy. Ah my stepfather jumped out and warned the border agents. Said, "Hey, (inc) young lad that has mumps.

Interviewer: So when he was small he didn't give you any trouble, eh? Speaker: No no he was a very good little fellow, he was really good. Good in school too. Interviewer: Oh wow. Speaker: Good la-- lad yeah.

Speaker: So he might be home this weekend. But he's a nice fellow. Big boy too, six-feet-tall, big- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Two-hundred-and-twenty-pounds. Very agile. Nice lads. (inc) Picture's right there. Right there, that picture there.

Yeah, old Miriam-Owal. God, yes. Yeah. You don’t see them anymore. And there was another crippled lad. Jim-Catch, they called him. Ah, Polish. During the hungry thirties. He ah, sold papers and he'd stand on Moore's-Corner there and I still remember as a kid.

They're a very prominent outfit in Kirkland-Lake. So he went in there, he started the machine job at s- for six-years and one day, one of the lads quit in the ah um, ah what do you call it, drafting-room. Ah, for- give one-week's notice, so they said, "Donny, do you-know anything about drafting?" So they brought him in, so he was there forty-two-years.

Yes, we're pretty happy about that and then the other lad, he works at a local ah, grocery-store.

Baby-sat my grandchildren. Some of them- one lad he's in the s-- starting, I think he's close to forty years old now. And his sister's in her thirties and then I had Ronny-Patterson, which is got to be in his thirties and is- or close to thirty and Tania-Patterson that's twenty something and so I- I g-- I baby-sat them when they were younger.

Speaker: Well there was one lad in my eh- day and age. He used to come and start the fire. Interviewer 1: Mm-hm. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: And ah, there was always somebody that was available. Now for a few years, I used to do the cleaning at the school...

The- the young lad- he worked for a steel company there in Whitby and they wanted grade twelve to sweep the floor. Like my boss here, young Dylan-Arthur- he- they wanted grade twelve to work in- deliver milk and the boss didn't have grade twelve.

Ah- ah I often think we should go down to see the young lad and maybe go into Toronto look around for a vehicle. Either that or ah toying with the idea of maybe pick up a used one here. Two nine or two ten.

But the young lad here- he works in Elk-Lake but his boss- they sent him to Cochrane- down as far as Montreal to work. He has all the heavy equipment at- in the sawmills here.

He's a good lad but I mean- his dad's in the home up there too at Standard-Care.