Interviewer: Ah I graduated in when I was seventeen. Speaker: Seventeen. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Okay. Fine-and-dandy. It's- it's kind-of difficult at seventeen years of age, you-know? It's an extra year of school that your parents have to help you pay for and you have to work for it. But you're also, in my estimation, too young.

... get involved with the legion in- in some capacity either with ah- ah the different events that we have ah in legion. Ah we have ah an executive that they- they can join. Like not just join for the- the privileges you have for legion, which is- it's fine and dandy ah but I think if you're going to join legion you should part-- participate as a member and- and- and enjoy it.

Interviewer: Well you must remember when you got your first car though. Speaker: First car? Yeah, yes I do. Um, there's a- a thirty-Plymouth. Had a round (inc) in the back. Not very good car. Interviewer: No? Speaker: No (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs) Interviewer: (Laughs) Interviewer: How come? Speaker: Well I-don't-know, you had to b-- baby it every time you wanted to go some place. It wasn't a good car. But when I was married, I had a thirty- thirty-Chev- Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: And it was a good one. Yeah, it was a dandy car. There was none much to it.

Well Eliza-Mailer would've been a dandy, but poor Eliza's dead now too.

I can remember one time, um, we were inoculating ah, yearlings. And we had this grey-colt and he was a dandy colt and he went on. We sold him to good advantage and he made almost four-hundred-thousand-dollars for the people that bought him but whoa, is he feisty.

Interviewer: So where were you living when Richie arrived? Speaker: Um, a-- on Fourth-Avenue. Interviewer: In Ottawa? Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: Right downtown Ottawa? Speaker: Well, all of his aunts and uncles, they all lived in the Glebe. So- so we- yes and that was- that was just dandy.

Interviewer: So that was a job in- as a kid too? To go out and pick apples? And makes things in the fall- Speaker: Yeah but al-- also go out and pick wild strawberries. That was a dandy job. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Because wild strawberries are pretty small.

And I don't know if they have run out or if the deer keep it cropped down or what- like, there used to be patches, you go out and you find the patch of wild strawberries. Dandy big patch, nearly twice the size of this room and you just take the kid and- mum used to go and take the kids, we come back with a whole damn bunch of strawberries, lovely strawberries-

I went to a one-room school, I walked to school and the only time that things would be really dandy is when it was a really cold, cold day with a bad wind. My older brothers would probably hitch up the horses and give me a ride to- to school. So that's where I got initiated on how valuable a horse blanket was.

There was hardwood, there was cedar, there was everything mixed together. And, ah, for boiling maple syrup it was a- a dandy thing. And it was cheap.

And very, just going dandy and then come the labour lords, you-know to check us all out, and all the w-- "You're crazy, can't do that."

Interviewer: Yeah that's great, but he wasn't gonna stop for you? Speaker: No I don't think he woulda if Roy hadn't ah stepped up to him. Interviewer: But you got your photo that's good. Speaker: Oh I got some dandies. I got- listen I got a pile of books out there on Hank-Snow that deep. Yeah, yeah. Interviewer: So, you got to meet him and ah have you- now what are some- have you met any other kind of celebrities or famous people?

Interviewer: Tell me, do you have any stories about hunting? Speaker: I got a couple of dandies. Interviewer 2: (Laughs) Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Yeah. A nice deer, yeah.

Yeah, a tree lives certain, ah- some of the old trees that my father tapped we cut down a few years ago. And, ah, you split them up into wood. And about that much around each hole would be, ah, dark wood. Not dead wood but dark wood as we just, ah- see it's the real sapwood, the- the white wood on the outside of the tree that gives the sap. Not the heart or, ah, the coloured stuff inside.

Yeah, yeah. Oh he- he- he felt debonair, eh? That got him into trouble, he was too good-looking sometimes.

...had a large family and we made the rig in the form of what we called a democrat, with three seats and each seat would accommodate two adults or three young people.

And they'd take a- you-know, a big- the team of horses with a big wi-- like, they called it a democ-- a democrat in those days. It was a s-- a seat in the front and then all the back was like a van...

This has since been pushed into- and it should be, it sh-- you shouldn't be dissecting a dew worm in university.

But um, yeah so well got a house, nice house, loved it. I guess it all kind-of started with, I got the nice room, 'cause I found the house, so I got- I got first dibs, I got the nice room.

So I-mean all you do is fill it out and you get first dibs on what- where you wanna be.