So as soon as I got finished you see I was done and I would (…) I would go home you see because I never was there for to stay.

But I had some lovely weddings there, beautiful. Young girls who don’t want to- nice set out for to get married. And they can use the hall for you don’t have to leave the minute the wedding’s over if they don’t want to.

...and then we used to have a card party once a week and all this money used to go into our mission, you see, for to keep our mission going. This was all during through the depression, when the whole thing was going on.

Interviewer: What colour is the tartan? Speaker: Yellow and green and black, a yellow strip down and you wear a safety, the Gordons wore a large safety-pin on the side for to pin it you-know like the girls use sometimes, a big pin.

You-know a Scots them days spoke French and still you-know, them wealthier class in Scotland speak French. It seems to be a rule over there, girls used to go over to France for to spend six months learning French.

One room school we were in, it would hold about seventy. Built of stone, you-know, solid. And it was free and easy there, if you wanted for to find out something instead of going asking the school teacher what about it you could go and sit down beside a student what you knew what knew the answer, sit with him and there weren't a word said and ask him or her how you did it.

...and them airforce fellows, gee they liked coming down you-know. They weren't paid for working there, they just liked to come down for to get away from the stuffy airport.

This lady you-know, she was worried somebody was going to kill her and she tried to get the police and her husband and everybody, she couldn't get anybody on the phone, it was wrong number. And then she heard the step on the stairway coming up, and her husband tried to, he got on the phone and he yelled to her for to escape you-see.

Interviewer: What would they be made with, ah, any special tools? Speaker: Oh, yes there was special tools, there were the special- ah, horse or jack, for to make them on.

Ah, my dad, he- more or less looked after the machine, and he helped to feed it, but whoever was running the- at the horses there, they helped to unload too, but in this particular case, these horses, they were quite high-spirited, and they attempt for to run away, or for to move out from the- from the machine.

But that- oh, I don't know, at that time, there was nobody in a hurry. But the neighbour drove into the yard, ah, you always had time for to speak to him, and talk to him, it- it wasn't, ah, and he drove in, they didn't ask him what brought him in there, why he'd came there, it didn't matter.

There was no winter milking. Interviewer: Oh, I see. Speaker: Not- not- not ah, very much. Maybe they'd have one cow that you would try and keep for to have a little something milk for the house, but they didn't- they didn't depend anything on winter milk.

Ah, you wouldn't think of breaking them before three or four year old, three year old. They wouldn't- three year old wouldn't have to do too much heavy work, he'd just go- you'd to drag him enough for to get him- get him used to the harness, and of what he was supposed to do.

Interviewer: Whinnying, or winnowing, something-like-that. Speaker: Oh, the winnow. Interviewer: No no, no, ah- Speaker: Oh, oh, you- you mean for to clean the grain- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: After it was flailed. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: Well, they had to wind that.

But I've seen the dash churn, though. [0:40:00.0] And some of those dash churns were hooked up for to run with, ah, dog-power. Interviewer: Oh, yeah. Speaker: The same as the old trample. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Um, what would you put the butter into after, ah- Speaker: Butter loom, butter loom (?). Interviewer: And the- it was stored in that? Speaker: Oh no, oh no, that was just for to- to wash the milk out of it, and then, ah, shake some sod on it, or- and you still worked in it, until you got this sod melted.

Interviewer: What do you- what do you call those rows? Speaker: Well we ah call- or like rows. Like ah we went and then when we got it big enough- we thought it big enough for to stack you-know?

Speaker: One man has a tractor engine right down there when you go out through the door I'll show you. Interviewer: Hm. Speaker: He's got it in the yard down there. He's had- he bought it, oh just for loving, just for to have it for now.

At that time, you-know, they, ah- they used to have these big beaver meadows that they had to cut with, ah, the scythe. You've seen them? Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Just mow and- too wet for to put mowing machines or anything in.

Interviewer: Did they, um, use the stumps to- to, um, enclose the field? To put around the edges of it? Speaker: Well, where there was pine- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Yeah, where there was pine they tried to- upset them- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Up for to make fences.

Speaker: Most of- most of people then kept enough, ah, hens even if they didn't sell many eggs- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: They'd have enough for to keep them going.