Ah, some of the seniors would, ah, have to, ah- I think they actually paid- each year we'd switch around but it was usually some- mostly like be a lad or-something that was close by.

But ah, he wasn't a bad lad, I guess, he- he wanted you to learn for sure, but ah…

Oh, that was ideal because the- usually the ladies tried to see how much a young lad could eat.

And- and this- I wouldn't mention, I- I wouldn't put a name into this lad that done it but he's- the music teacher was there and- and a normal teacher was there and he- a little weird- what was left of an eraser, he stuck it up his nose.

Oh he was a good lad, yeah. Just he didn't- he couldn't talk. But that's…

Well, one lad said, "If you can't buy it in Galbraith's store, you probably won't get it in Almonte either."

...the young lads um decided they'd do it again. But somebody must h-- tipped him off or he was just- wasn't prepared to have that happen again and ah, the young lad lived on the shore of Hornes-Lake over there and his parents went up to the neighbours to play cards and they were supposed to be in bed and they were seventeen, eighteen years old and ah, the young lad ah they bailed out of bed after the parents left...

...the young lads um decided they'd do it again. But somebody must h-- tipped him off or he was just- wasn't prepared to have that happen again and ah, the young lad lived on the shore of Hornes-Lake over there and his parents went up to the neighbours to play cards and they were supposed to be in bed and they were seventeen, eighteen years old and ah, the young lad ah they bailed out of bed after the parents left...

And the lad from Hopetown that lived out there, then him and I grabbed the saws (inc) and ah, we came second. And them old lads still beat us and they were thirty, forty years older than we were.

He- they young lad was entering his property without permission and so Barns wasn't charged with anything. But that seems to be where people quit talking about the story.

Speaker: No no I was just going to- my elbows here ah the joint- were festered with a boil that big on each side and they had- Interviewer: Eating candy (laughs)? Speaker: Had to b-- yup. And they had to be lanced. I had to go to the doctors and have them lanced because they were that big. I couldn't bend my arm for- for three months. And eventually- eventually ah the doctor told me (laughs) she- "You better cut back on that stuff. You're going to kill yourself."

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.

Speaker: There 's like an -one Indian family up the street. Yeah, our neighborhood 's pretty good it 's a safe neighborhood except the laneway. The laneway 's not too safe. Interviewer: Why? A lot of crazy things happen in the laneway? Speaker: Yeah, I was once held up at gun-point with my friends in the laneway. It was me and Marilena and um at the time her boyfriend this guy Jeff and two of his friends, Rui and Jeffrey and Jerry and we were all there in the lane- ways holding forty 's of beer 'cause that 's what we do for fun. No, we don 't-- I don 't do that anymore but at the time, it was fun. So we were there in the laneway and this like black big truck thing drove by and like slowed down and then it came by again, we were still there and then some guy held out a gun out the window and said--then two three black-guys came out of the car and um they came and checked us all for like money oh well not us but the guys.

Speaker: There 's like an -one Indian family up the street. Yeah, our neighborhood 's pretty good it 's a safe neighborhood except the laneway. The laneway's not too safe. Interviewer: Why? A lot of crazy things happen in the laneway? Speaker: Yeah, I was once held up at gun-point with my friends in the laneway. It was me and Marilena and um at the time her boyfriend this guy Jeff and two of his friends, Rui and Jeffrey and Jerry and we were all there in the lane- ways holding forty 's of beer 'cause that 's what we do for fun. No, we don 't-- I don 't do that anymore but at the time, it was fun. So we were there in the laneway and this like black big truck thing drove by and like slowed down and then it came by again, we were still there and then some guy held out a gun out the window and said--then two three black-guys came out of the car and um they came and checked us all for like money oh well not us but the guys.

Speaker: There 's like an -one Indian family up the street. Yeah, our neighborhood 's pretty good it 's a safe neighborhood except the laneway. The laneway's not too safe. Interviewer: Why? A lot of crazy things happen in the laneway? Speaker: Yeah, I was once held up at gun-point with my friends in the laneway. It was me and Marilena and um at the time her boyfriend this guy Jeff and two of his friends, Rui and Jeffrey and Jerry and we were all there in the laneways holding forty 's of beer 'cause that 's what we do for fun. No, we don 't-- I don 't do that anymore but at the time, it was fun. So we were there in the laneway and this like black big truck thing drove by and like slowed down and then it came by again, we were still there and then some guy held out a gun out the window and said--then two three black-guys came out of the car and um they came and checked us all for like money oh well not us but the guys.

Okay. So anyway, the- the- we used to go in there and they used to- we used to go down the laneway behind Shopsie's and they would have racks of salamis and wieners

...and there was, um- the laneway and it would separate Danforth from like Strathamour so if we had to go to the-Danforth we would just go through the laneway instead of going like all the way around the block because then...

Yes. Well I was having a bath on the front veranda in a big wash-tub, that 's the only time we had company, and it was a tractor or truck or something going down the laneway going to the back forty or something. (laughs) And I yelled at Ron and he ran out with a- with a towel for me, but they didn 't come up to the house.

I went to that group home for two years up this laneway to this institution place and one day I was going up there and um- one day I was going up there and a woman was with Philip, and she had a power about her.

Yeah yeah it was more fun right? And then ah I used to go with my um my um (snaps) my uncle ah when we were at five-forty-three Klendenen-Avenue. My grandparents' place. And he used to go and shoot pigeons in the laneway. My- my grandmother used to make soup out of them.