Um well I mean- it was- we were really drunk. I was walking back from a bush party with s-- ah my friend Sandra and ah...

Speaker: Always- usually house parties. A few times I went to a- I went to a few bush parties. Oh my goodness, in grade-nine it was the best year-end ever, it was on a bus. Interviewer: What? Speaker: Like, this guy lived out on, you know where- did you go to this one? Interviewer: I don't remember. Speaker: Oh okay. Well this guy- he lived out on the highway um, near Haileybury. And he had like a huge property and in his backyard he had this bus. Um, and so it was like a bush party but there was a big bus there and people were just going crazy in and on top of the bus and I remember um people being on top of the bus and like shooting fireworks in the air and-stuff

Speaker: I said that I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah you'd go to ah- we'd have ah like bush parties.

Yeah, there- we had bush parties but not- not so much, like it would be like someone who lived in the country or-something. We'd go out there and pitch tents and-that-kind-of-thing. But not um- like going to Quebec was a big thing when we were there.

Yeah, they'll find anywhere to party. (inc) in the summer just go- anywhere around. They'll go anywhere. In the bush, they'll go to lakes. Have bush parties everywhere.

Ah. The last bush party I went to was with Robert, it was when we'd just started dating. We uh- he had this four-runner who was an old truck, yellow, bright like this- and it was ah it had the big stereo system, the base, everything.

Straight up and we're- ended up chasing us. We ran in the bush for about half an hour to stay away from them. It was crazy. That's fun about the bush though, the bush parties were the best here.

Well bush-whacker normally is just a lumber-jack. No, he's- he's- he was a cutter in the bush. You-know the guy that (inc) on stuff and cut the- usually and then it was mostly the four foot pulp-wood as they call it eh?

I re-- kind-of realized that the- the maybe salary was what? Thirty-five or so and- and ah bush-work and the-rest-of-that is not ah- is not one to last too long on

Yeah, sh-- she- her name is ah, a- Bern. I'm not going to say her last name but um, yeah she's whimpy, um we saw her come in and we're like "Oh my gosh." Like she's really tall and kind of butch looking. She's a girl.

Yeah, they're pretty butch around here. Um, some of them are okay. We had a few nerds um, butch is common I-guess. Um, I-don't-know, the high-school kids always intimidate little kids like me, like I just- I just want to stay away from them because I thought they were all mean.

It's ah- (talking to dog) will you buzz-off? Go away.

And mind, I kept telling him, "Stand up for yourself. Tell them to buzz off, leave you alone. You-know, like stand up for yourself in some way shape or form." "Yeah, but then he's going to beat me up even harder."

So I told him to buzz off that night and I was standing back in the- with the crowd of the girls and Earl come along and he put him arm on my shoulder, he says, "Come on red, I want to dance."

So anyway, he come up about- oh I-guess about one-o'clock, I'm just doing the dishes and ah this other chap that was chasing me around, that I told him buzz off the night before, he drove up to the front door.

So you-know we just chilled-out and drank that and like the first hour I was like totally fine but like after that like I was pure buzzed like head-spins like dizziness like I wasn 't like drunk. I knew what I was doing but it 's just if you asked me to walk in a straight line I couldn 't do that so that was pretty bad.

Interviewer: These are all expressions that were common. Speaker 1: Yup. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker 1: Yup. Speaker 2: Yes, you certainly- Speaker 1: "By-gosh-and-by-gorry." Do you remember that one, Bertrand? Speaker 2: Yup. Speaker 1: "By-gosh-and-by-gorry?"

Speaker 1: "Over yonder," yes. (laughs) "By-the-golly." Interviewer: Oh! Speaker 2: The gully? Oh, "by-the-golly." Speaker 1: "By-the-golly," yeah. Interviewer: Tell me about that. Speaker 1: That's just, "Oh, by-the-golly, I'll see you later-"

At my dad's was all round, and- well we built- the building part was built the cow-byre after my- after my time. I was about eleven year old when they built the building, like built the inside of the building. You-know the cow-byre?

Speaker: At my dad's was all round, and- well we built- the building part was built the cow-byre after my- after my time. I was about eleven year old when they built the building, like built the inside of the building. You-know the cow-byre? Interviewer: Ah what's that ah- Speaker: Where you put the cows in? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Like you-know? Ah, we always called it the cow-byre.