... so dad would just draw them back through that way, instead of coming out towards Lanark. ... That would be it, yeah pretty well.

Interviewer: So, did you talk to everyone, or just the only- just the people in your grade? Speaker: Oh no, you could talk with anyone. Interviewer: Yeah. Did everyone know each other? Speaker: Pretty well. It was a small community.

Interviewer: Yeah, and so what did you do at weddings? Speaker: They- pretty well the same thing they do now, eh?

Interviewer: Wow. Did you have any brothers or sisters? ... Did you get along with all of them? Speaker: Ah pretty well, yeah.

Interviewer: Yeah, what was- how did you do that? Speaker: Laid a sheep on the table, and just take the shears and take the wool off, eh? Interviewer: Really? They would just lay down? You didn't have to catch them or anything? Speaker: No they pretty well come to you like, you-know. Interviewer: Wow, those were some pretty accommodating sheep.

Then if they're going farther out in the field, they'd go make themselves sandwiches, and take them out, and then they'd- say about four-o'clock they had a little bit to eat, and then they never had nothing, 'til it was pretty well getting dark already, that they couldn't work out in the field, then they'd come and make a big supper.

... we had a theatre in town, and we would go to the theatre. ... No I don't remember the first time I- I went. Not- not the first time, but I- I remember going, and we would go pretty-well every Saturday. And they had cute little love-seats at the time. You could sit two in a- two in a seat.

Well you have to wa-- oh yeah, you have to wait 'til it really get good cold weather and-stuff-like-that, you can't just when it first comes on, you got to wait but usually on shore when it freezes up, you-know, it's pretty well safe, you stay close to shore.

And ah yeah so each p-- each person or- or group of people takes on a specific job and then it- it usually goes pretty well and if there is a snag, like if a waitress forgets to come or something happens or-whatever you-know you get a group of people and you don't have a table for them, what do you do? You-know? You kind-of work around that ...

... in Ottawa, I was taking courses and my husband was working on construction in Ottawa and yeah, one of the ah students died, drowned. So we had to come to that week and- and actually it was a relative of my husband's. So yeah. But otherwise that class has done pretty well, most of them. Yeah. There's one kid I think that's kind of screwy but most of them, yeah.

Interviewer: So what classes then- you shared together? ... Like girls and boys. ... Speaker: Well like everything, pretty well everything else. Like we did arts and science so it was like ah- geography, history, all-that-stuff, English, that was- French. That was all boys and girls. There was never anywhere really in any of our schools here that they were segregated apart.

Interviewer: So how do you check that there's no bees in the- that'll be a little scary, wouldn't it (laughs)? ... Speaker: Once they gets a couple of frosts, they're pretty well gone.

Interviewer: You just work all the time? Speaker: Pretty well, yeah, I work ah, during the winter from four in the morning 'til six at night.

Well this winter, yeah, when I was on propane, I started at four in the morning and worked 'til two in the afternoon on propane truck and then got on the other truck and worked 'til five or six. Then I come home and you were done- ... You were pretty well beat.

... I've never really heard stories about the Wilno ghost. Ah we didn't have a Barry's-Bay ghost. Ah any- any crazy spirits, they were pretty well alive in Barry's-Bay, they weren't dead.

... he read about fiddleheads which are the fern before it grows- goes up so then we got on to picking fiddleheads. So- and they come the same time as the leeks pretty well so you're out battling the mosquitoes again, and they were delicious too. They're sort of a cross between like an asparagus and- and the- the stalk of broccoli and yeah.

... I think kids generally were given more independence and more responsibilities, you-know when they got to be fifteen or sixteen. I mean s-- now kids work and they've got jobs and things, you-know? But ah I think at that time when you were sixteen you were pretty well considered an adult and you-know if you hadn't learned what you needed to learn by then well good luck to you, as the Kiwis say.

... like I say we went to Toronto to see the windows in Eaton's and Simpson's because it was, you-know, people didn't decorate now like they do. And we thought pretty well magic had landed. Christmas lights were on and they were all different colours. There was none of these, you-know, designer Christmas decorations. It was literally magic.

Speaker: I was born there but we moved to Combermere I don't know just when but- Interviewer: But you got your first memories in Combermere? Speaker: Yeah, pretty well.

Interviewer: So going back to- so when you were a bit younger, um, did you have any friends in the town? ... Speaker: Oh yeah. ... I knew pretty well everybody- ... There then, you-know? Now I don't know anybody that lives in Combermere. They're all new people.