He was a young lad, played the violin just wonderful and he committed suicide. Yeah, and um they were good friends. So about a few days after, this Jordan-Morgan, he- he did the same thing.

...this old lad, "One thing I'm going to tell you- was you need to put your eggs in many baskets if you're going to make it count…in farming." So y-- so we discussed this at the f-- after those guy left, eh, we were "What the devil is he talking about?"

Anyway, I went through it with the truck, and I (inc) home, here was the young lad on the couch, pain in his belly. "Well what happened to you?" He was there before I was. Well the- (inc) was a crooked road and he had the bucket of the tractor tip down, he should have hit the half ton truck head on, it would have been easier.

Been able to survive. With a wee bit of everything. And some people are- getting back to this other lad. This lad- father of this young lad, this Art guy. He went to (inc)-College. He come home from that, he clipped sheep.

But I- runs off me like water off a duck. So this other year you went back to the same place, eh, I had another lad- taller lad with me. So I said to Kirk, "You go over the corner of the barn." So he did, he went to the corner of the barn. The top of his head, would be about level with the amount of manure that was in the barn.

He says to us, "Do you know anything about horses' feet?" "No I don't know beans about horses' feet." But the other lad with me did. So I sit down.

Him and the young lad and I were up here and we were taking the tractor and wagon to the other place, eh? Fifteen kilometres away. So (inc) you live in fear, he's not sixteen and he can't- lot of funny things, eh? But touch wood, he's a big guy so his age maybe, he's bigger than the young- bigger than the- he's younger than what he looks.

I'd show them how. I'd show them how but some of them think I'm crazy if I show them. No, I'd show- (inc) this young lad with me yesterday, when his dad went to (inc)-College, that's the guy that I was talking about earlier.

I'd show them how. I'd show them how but some of them think I'm crazy if I show them. No, I'd show- (inc) this young lad with me yesterday, when his dad went to (inc)-College, that's the guy that I was talking about earlier. He went to (inc)-College and then he come home, nothing to do so him and I clipped sheep for a few years.

No. Was not five and six- five and six was a (inc) school. Seven and eight was in Naismith and then high-school in Almonte. That's where I went. And then there was two or three lads went to (inc) college so I stayed home so then the guy- one of the guys- same age as I, he went to college I stayed home.

o we went in around into the house and over to the double sinks in the kitchen, wash your hands, eh? Young lad was with me, turned on the water tap. There's no water. Young lad says, "We got a problem." "What's the problem?" "Can't wash your hands."

One year I give them- one lad, I give them eighty-five hundred dollars for the year. Right? There's- I kept track of it, right? So then, yeah, "Oh, you can't claim that."

Raking hay. Eh, you cut hay, you have to rake hay before you bale it. And this little young lad- this- the other lad's brother was with me then over at the other ro-- other home place, busy raking hay. So we're all done heading for home.

S-- the- you don't mind helping anybody out but cripes, there's got to be some loophole somewhere. Well one worse than that, is (inc) same- one with the same kids. One of the same lad big lad. What was it? Well I've had livestock here since nineteen-eighty-eight here, mom's home place.

So the father...yeah, the old lad's son said to us, after his quote like that, "You need a little bit of everything and not much of anything to make it work." And that's just about right. 'Cause some of the commodities, eh if price of lamb goes down, well the beef will carry you through or-whatever.

So then grandpa sitting beside him eh, he got a chuckle out, he say- he spoke right then, eh? You darn well he wasn't (laughs)- he wasn't Canadian either. (Coughs) It was pretty comi-- he was straight from Scotland, that lad. So this young lad thought grandpa and I were-

So then grandpa sitting beside him eh, he got a chuckle out, he say- he spoke right then, eh? You darn well he wasn't (laughs)- he wasn't Canadian either. (Coughs) It was pretty comi-- he was straight from Scotland, that lad. So this young lad thought grandpa and I were...

So we went in around into the house and over to the double sinks in the kitchen, wash your hands, eh? Young lad was with me, turned on the water tap. There's no water. Young lad says, "We got a problem." "What's the problem?" "Can't wash your hands."

That's right. Another can of worms is a few years ago. Well the young lads are getting scarce. Scarcer. I have three, having four little f-- three guys, good little guys. Fellow says you're breaking the rules 'cause there's supposed to be eighteen- sixteen when they drive a tractor.

The grandparents were there too at this couple's place. So the old guy, the grandfather of this kid comes out…to us. Must've been ten or a dozen of us young lads all sitting in the kitchen. And this old lad comes out and- the guy called us laddies. This Herald man in Carleton, Dane-Herald's father come out and he says, "Laddies, I don't care if you don't learn nothing, but the one thing I'm going-"