Our business is built on English china pretty well you-know. And now we're into the jewellery business.

But it was always easy to dry up a cow if you didn't feed hers take the feed away from her, pretty well, and she'd soon dry up.

Harry-Conors, he had four or five horses there, so their horses, they used to have to stand in the shed we had up there, it was pretty well closed in; there was a sliding door onto it.

... well you'd have to ah- sort of ah lay out the- the boards so that the ah- the grain in them would match, you-know because they were stained you-see you'd try to get a board that was matched pretty well with the stain and then ah you'd have to lay that out too you-know see, like that, so that when it didn't look so bad for a joint when you had to make a joint you-know right?

Suppose it had to expand to get the services really in a way but ah- ah the funny part of it was that um ah- ah when it was taken over by the city a lot of t was built up or st-- or pretty well built ah before the city ever took it over, see? It was. And of course they've been filling in the pieces here and there since see. ... It's- there's- Wright-Avenue and this part here was pretty well filled up when they took it over- the city took it over- that time it was- it was filled wi-- with housing.

And one thing he done, this teacher- he's great with arithmetic alright. About ten minutes to twelve. About to be pretty well done, everybody put their books away and he'd give out mental arithmetic. He had addition on the- on the side seats.

Interviewer: I felt they were done a lot of these- these contests? Speaker: Every Friday pretty well. Interviewer: And you could have a good time while you were getting drilled with your basics? Speaker: Oh yes.

It was one of the old-fashioned Fords. And ah- (laughs) we got so that we could do it very nicely! He could be- do the foot part of it and I did the hand part and we got so we could work together pretty well (laughs)!

Interviewer: What would he sell at the market? Speaker: Well, I guess he'd sell pretty well what the market- (bells ringing) they'd sell, all kinds of vegetables and principle vegetables that you sell on the market.

And ah things were pretty- during the war everybody was working pretty well. Insurance was in quite demand then too.

Interviewer: How has the church changed in the years that you've been there? Speaker: How has it changed you say? Well, in early days the church was a community-centre pretty well.

They, ah- they did have stump pullers, at one time, but, ah, they were only good for a small stump, a great big tree, they just had to build a fire around it and burn and after it got pretty well burnt then they could go at it and chop it up and- and-

... he made a- a good salary yet the season for his work was short. Like, he didn't work from November 'til maybe in March. He'd, ah- December and January and February- ... Pretty well are, you-know, no work because- ... In those days they couldn't lay a brick in the wintertime, not like it is now because-

I think we had better crops in. I know years ago, dad was putting in a crop he'd have it pretty well started by now you-know? ... But now you can't get on the land until May sometimes.

We worked ahead, and coming on pretty well in the evening. And, ah, I took an idea of me own. He was black as- his face was black, you-know, and all (inc), looked terrible.

(laughs) Well now... ah they- they count nine months you-see and quite often they go a week maybe over their time, sometimes two. And we have to be ready for them if they're going to come in around a h-- you know pretty well.

Well, here- ah they have an Irish name, most of them. ... Peter and ah names like that you-know. For the- you can tell pretty well by the names but the younger fry is getting away from all that kind of s-- different altogether.

Bin- bin scotch, you-know my mother binned scotch, she- she had everything pretty well figured out.

Interview: Was there a place to put the pigs food? Speaker: Yes, you always kept it in some corner pretty well covered by itself so that if a cow or-anything got loose or if one of the animals got loose, it would't get into the hash, they love hash.

... he would get his two horses and the uh, wagon and he would uh, stay on the ground with his fork and lift the hay onto the wagon and mother would uh- well the horses pretty well went themselves, you just uh, put the reins onto the uh, um, wagon someplace and uh, mother would- would drive, plus when my father would put the hay onto the wagon, mother would tramp it down to see that she could- and place it- ...