She would take the horse and buggy in the earlier years, or the horse and cutter in winter but then when we got a car, she would take the car.

Interviewer: Mm-hm. In the winter what would you use in place of a buggy? Speaker: A cutter. And then a sleigh.

The horse and- a horse, around. And ah ah both summer and winter, buggies and s-- cutters, yeah.

Interviewer: Uh-huh. How did they take out the stumps? Speaker: Eh? Interviewer: How did- Speaker: Chopped them out of the stone with a- an axe. And this old grubhoe. Grubhoe, they called it. You couldn't break it, you-know. Interviewer: Mm-hm. And then what? Then how do you get them off the field? Speaker: Pile them up in a pile and p-- burn them. Dandy good l-- land, you know. An acre of land back then was fit for fifty acres now.

Interviewer: And what did they call that? Speaker: Eh? That was what they used for a stoneboat, or drawing water, or anything they were moving. Interviewer: They didn't call that a snowboat? Like, for on the snow, like a stoneboat on the snow? Speaker: It'd go all dandy on the snow, but um, you're thinking to the- what we call the flat-bottomed stoneboat.

Speaker: But there were, um, there were dandy blacksmiths. It was lovely to see the ironwork, and they made it all like flowers, I think, all for to make it strong. Not heavy iron, quite light, or they'd want nothing with it, but made in the loveliest (inc), and go to do it first, do-you-see? And all said it was lovely to look at.

Speaker: Some of the neighbours told me, "Don't you let him fool you." Nice old man (laughs) but he says, "There's places down there in that place where a lot of these old fellows go, and they like a little drink," do-you-see? And sometime now they're getting old like this, they just like a little too much and a little nice place to stay. A dandy place to go, and you're well used and as long as you don't get a little much of that, well then you sleep, and then they can rob you there if they like or they can use you well as they like- do as they like. Do-you-see, if you're a stranger you've no place to go, do-you-see.

Speaker: See, they all (inc) out in the bush. They would all watch your left and there must have been four, um- four, ah, robins came there the other evening. The little ones must have just been breaking the shell or, ah- or was out of the shell when that flustery cold rain come. Interviewer: What- what kind of rain? Speaker: Like kind of a fusty rolled in, it wasn't heavy, but it was always coming right in, and I'll show you, when you're going away, she has it right in the top, but I cut the top off the little pine tree out there. And she has a dandy place to build her nest, on the floor in the embers (sp). And she built her nest there.

And I says, "If you can get a- another horse, and a pair of sleighs, and, ah, you have three horses," and, ah, there was one- the oldest one, they called, ah, Bill. A big grey horse. A dandy good horse, you-know, he'd do- he'd do anything for you.

And an old horse would look after that business. And this was just a colt, you-know, it didn't know- (laughs) he has to know where they're going and what they're doing, and- and a dandy good beast too.

Interviewer: Yeah. Have you never seen those? Speaker: Yeah, I see them flying over here, all the- once they's up here and then to the lake. That's a dandy place for it, near- back in there.

Interviewer: Yeah. But did you- did you only live here in, ah, Carleton-Place? Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: Did you never live anywhere else in, ah- Speaker: I moved darn far, for to start to cart up there, I knew there was a dandy place. There was nobody up there.

Well, he says, "I'm supposed to be down at the boat at two-o'-clock." And, ah, she did, she had them boiled beans and bean soup, and good bean soup, too. And a dandy good dinner.

So, um, I went away up here into Beckwith one cold night, poor old woman were dead up there. And, ah, she was upstairs, I went up. He was a dandy hand to dress a woman, or a man or anything.

Interviewer: What did you- what did you used to make from the cherries? Speaker: Well, preserve them, you-know and- Interviewer: Yeah? Ever make ah, for toast? Speaker: Oh yes. Interviewer: One of ah- Speaker: Oh yes. And I was just telling 'em yesterday. We were eating the Bockmans you-know. And I said "By-the-by, if we'd had them here," Oh and big fellows, dandy. We'd half a dozen trees of them, we couldn't look at using them.

Speaker: Ah we had one for ah years here. Had ah horses drank out of it and the cows drank out of it. Cooled the milk in it. Interviewer: How long did it take- Speaker: Three big- oh it- th-- they stood a good while. The ash was ah- get a good big ash. They make a- dandy.

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.

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...

We had corn but we didn't have no silo we just give the corn to the cows out in the yard. We kept them warm while they were eating. But we always had good cows.

Interviewer: Um what would you call a- a- the bundles of ah grain. Speaker: Oh we didn't have no bundles. We didn't have no bundles. We didn't have no- no machinery to make bundles. Interviewer: You- you picked it up loose or- Speaker: Yes. We picked it up loose.