in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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Speaker: Well (inc) just a very special friend but she loves to hear- ... Her people are pretty well all gone, so- ... She loves to come listen to us old people, eh? |
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There was an orange lodge here, there was one in West-Guilford, there was one in Canarvon and there was one- pretty well in every area, there was an orange lodge. |
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I worked in construction. All my life, pretty well. I run a crane and-stuff-like-that. |
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They found her, she was out in the grain-field, she'd followed the binder wheel around and Johnny-Calendar found her. She laying dead. She'd pretty well bloated up. |
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They lived down the road and George was like a member of our family you-know. He's- he's same age as Lyle. And he was there all the time, he lived there pretty well. We'd go set the table, you-know we'd always set a ta-- place for George too. But ah, we had this bull in the barnyard. B-- in the barn. Big Herford bull. |
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We cut off a pile of- and then I come home, I hadn't been home all winter, stayed at McBride's pretty well. And then I come home the first of March. And the second day of March it snowed four feet. |
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Every year we- we'd (inc) deer, and in fact most of the time I shot i-- well I didn't shoot them but the guy I hunted with, he didn't keep his, so we always had two of them pretty well for the winter, which was good to- good food and-that. |
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oAnd then the next time was when we, at the end of the school year, we would start to weed it and hill the potatoes- we didn't grow potatoes, but hill the corn and all-that-stuff. And then that was pretty well it for the year except just pick stuff after that. |
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The b-- the nurse you-know, the girl that does the checks and-everything 'cause then your- your body- your- no water fluid build up, your eyes are not swollen. If you let that get ahead of you- and I weigh myself pretty well every morning. |
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So they take the- all the calls and then they just- similar, they pick up a phone and it pages us out through a phone, interconnect at the tower but it's a lot- covers- you can get the page at Kenise now and anywhere you are, pretty well. |
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Interviewer: Do you remember people still using horses? Speaker: Yes. We had horses- ... On the farm. And the horses ah, pretty well went out in nineteen-fifty-four. |
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Speaker: There was a lot of children you know, lived in Donald- Interviewer: Is that right? Speaker: Pretty well, there was, ah- let me see, there was ei-- ov-- eigthy-five men worked there and there was about thirty some more ah, children in the village. |
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Interviewer: And in what kinds of things would go- would you do on the farm? Speaker: Oh gosh. Lila you can jump in there. Speaker 2: Well you just think, think- Speaker: We lived off- we lived off the farm for- Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Pretty well. |
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Interviewer: How do you take care of chickens? Speaker: Well you have to feed them and water them. ... Then they pretty well- and then we had ah, ah- but we called it a hen-house, but it was an open place. We'd- they went in there and that was their home. |
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I said, "The lake is gone!" It was only a puddle. ... The dam in Clayton broke. ... Overnight and it- ... Pretty well drained Taylor-Lake. |
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It- it's not- it wasn't like it is now. You get into a car and go to Ottawa. You-know (laughs) you had- you had to b-- pretty well walk where you went or else you-know- you-know, just us- ... |
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Interviewer: Those are all good Scots names. Speaker: they came from Saint- round near- th-- that branch of the family came from near Saint-Williams in Scotland which is three parts away up on the west- near the west coast. That's pretty well it. |
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Interviewer: Did any of the kids get into trouble? ... You ever played pranks on the teacher, or anything-like- Speaker: Oh yeah, well, well, we had one teacher that they pretty well- she left, she was a nice girl, she was an awful nice, kind little girl, but (inc), there's a few kind-of rough ones. |
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And n-- right up there, there was a Hopetown gang, the Middleville gang and the Lanark gang all about in a row. ... Now the Hopetown gang is still pretty well Hopetown except there's three fellows from Deep-River come down still. There's ah- and rest of them are pretty well 'round and a- well fairly close or related. |
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... and ah this old Hank-Stephen as I was talking about, he was always out for his few little things every morning, bring the young lad out the school bus and- so he had to pretty well be- ... |
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