So anyway, away I went that afternoon, I come home about supper time, ah loaded right up and so I bought- the first thing I bought was a kitchen stove for two dollars.

So we work 'til early the morning 'til supper time, but that's how long it takes to do them all. There wasn't one horse who didn't plan out among the whole works. They all went good.

Now the first night was a great big supper for all the members of parliament and the dignitaries. You-know the long dresses and the tuxedoes and all.

All the time you're there, you and your men fed at dinnertime, fed at supper, slept at night, worked the next day, I've got cash, we'll leave right. Dave-Parson, he come out, "Keith!" "Yeah?" "I got to leave. I left you the same cheque on the table."

Interviewer: You went to town a lot? Speaker: Every year, until- Interviewer: But like in general, like- Speaker: We went out a lot? Interviewer: Like went into town a lot. Speaker: Ah not as a child, but once I'd hit high-school I'd kind of- I'd come home from high-school, eat supper, and then hurry back to town, and then I wouldn't come home till like ten-o'clock at night. And that was all- all high-school.

Interviewer: Yeah, definitely. What about the- the chicken dinner? Do you do the chicken dinner? Speaker: Yes. A-- as a matter of fact, garage sales I love and church suppers. As a matter of fact I have a whole list at home. Like these meals are absolutely incredible ah the price is going up from- they use to be ten dollars then they were twelve and now I see they're jumping up to thirteen and the odd one fifteen.

From the root-house. I would have to go and get the vegetables from the root-house and, ah, peel them for supper and, ah, you-know, different things-like-that. And my older sister, well she would be making c-- bread or cookies or-something-like-that.

Ah, really different than- than today. And, ah, it was a day- like, a whole day. You had to have- you had to feed the people by lunchtime and you had to feed them suppertime.

I think on Wednesdays and Fridays were May devotions, so we would come to school, walk home, have supper, do the chores and then walk back to church for the devotion and walk back home.

First thing you put on was the collar. And then you put the hames, throw them over their back and buckle the hames on, belly-band, surcingle or two between the legs- front legs and the belly-band went through it and you buckled. ... That was for if you wanted to back up. That's what went on the neck yoke and you backed up.

Speaker: And then um- the tray- ah, no there was ah- another affair attached to the shafts, too. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Something that went around the horse's hindquarters? Speaker: Oh yes, the ah- ah- cruppers, I-think, went around the tail. Interviewer: Yes, yes. And what about the ah part that fastened underneath the horse's- Speaker: Ah no, that surcingle was used on a blanket, I don't know what the- I- I've forgotten it.

Speaker: He was a city slicker. Come up here and brought logs up to the mill. ... He got stuck- cut to build with, eh? I tail-sawed in that mill, I tail-sawed- I was there that day, I was working on the mill when he come up there and took these pictures. Interviewer: What's a tail saw? Speaker: It's at the end of the mill. ... Where the lumber comes out. You had to handle all the slabs. That's the (inc), the outside. ... And when he got in, the lumber you had to handle that too.

Bring her back in, put her to bed. ... But she was never fussy, really. And within two months she was sleeping her nights, so I lucked out. But it's definitely different, because you can't just come home and relax right? You have to take after your kids so- by nine o'clock yeah you're- you're like grandma you want to go to bed (laughs). ... My friends will tease me. They're like "Well come on after you put your kid to bed."

Speaker: Well, I have some close, close calls. ... Out there in- in the- like the cattle you never knew the- what cattle the guy bought. You get in the pen, the first thing you knew one was taking after you, so you had to duck under something. Interviewer: The cow would come after you. Speaker: Chasing you, yeah. ... (Laughs) You just dive underneath something. You-know. I told the kids "Never go in the barn. I never want to see you in the barn."

... we brought all the cows home and there was one cow we couldn't catch so, it had about a foot of snow, so my friend and I went out with a tractor and a truck and he got out in the middle of the field chasing the cow and it took after him. He dove underneath the tractor. He just made it under the tractor and I was up in the bush and he hollers at me. He says "Get out of there, Gordon, she's coming after you now."

Speaker: Chasing you, yeah. ... (Laughs) You just dive underneath something. You-know. I told the kids "Never go in the barn. I never want to see you in the barn." 'Cause I never knew when they go in the pen, eh, and then something would take after them. Interviewer: But the cattle got out lots of times.

Yeah it's a- our- our other cat was this part Siamese- ... A-- and ah he used to protect property. and she does too. And ah another cat came across, our cat took after him. Cat ran out on the road and got killed (laughs)- ... On the highway (laughs). Our cat stopped at the egde.

Interviewer: Do you ever see bears up here? Speaker: (laughs) What the day before yesterday? ... Yeah we- we walked down here for exercise and there's one on the road ahead of us. We were a little concerned so we come back because- and got the car and went down because this guy- not for us (inc) but if he takes after the thing and he might get hurt.

And um, I used to go to the bush to cut timber and of course she'd come along and I'd give her heck for it. And ah, she'd laid in there all day and wait for me to come back. And then the one day she took after a deer and after that she was good. Very very good dog. The best I ever had.

... my father drove along. And he just- his eyes pretty near come out from the other side of the street. Well, he stopped his old car, a twenty-nine DeSoto, and he took after us. But we were able to outrun him, through a swamp just.