So she- she got the best mark (laughs) in school for interviewing Reg-Burton. But he was a teacher prior to being ah- ah painter but he was good friends with um another chap, Lester-Gordan and that's how we became friends with Reg-Burton.

You know what, I don't take a very good picture for the- do you realize that that county-echo in the Minden-Times that um it was started by Wesley-Nuse from Minden that the originally county-echo started actually in- was from a le-- chap from Minden that started that.

And new things were happening and one-thing-another, so I ah, just decided that Sammy and I wanted to do a bit of travelling you-know? But anyway, I-guess I was home a year and um, the bank manager and his wife ah, bought- and another chap bought the bakeshop where the Chinese foods place is now...

And she says, "Well it's not that I don't like my daughter-in-law," she said. "But" she said, "He m-- she makes (laughs)-" um "sleeps sometimes on a chesterfield and it's not a leather chesterfield, it's one of those um plastic things and I think it's giving them piles."

And they made all the little doilies like all- like they would doilies all made up and all starched up with them standing up perfectly to ah- you-know when you- in the center of a table there would be a doily and it'd be all perfectly starched, standing up looking like- like little loops going around. And the back of most chesterfield had a doily on it that would protect the back of the che-- chesterfield. And parts of the house would only be used at certain points of the time and it would closed off in the wintertime. Certain parts of the house b-- 'cause it'd be harder to heat.

Speaker: Ah, well this is a log building- these are other- this is a log building that's going to be a chinker but it isn't finished but- Interviewer: What is a chinker? Speaker: Ah, instead of being sc-- fit so tightly that just insulation is between the logs- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: There's actually a gap left and you plaster that with cement. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Yeah, so you don't fit them. You don't spend as much time fitting them but you have to spend the time after sealing them off-

...and this one said well "Somebody had all these babies and she lost half of them, half of them had died but what was this young chit telling her how to do things when she'd had this many and raised this many. You-know I always had ten and raised five or had twelve and raised six or-something."

And the Eltons were- ah was their daughter that my mom was- chummed around with.

Bout a hundred times when I went to school. Well I don't know 'bout a hundred times, but it happened on a fairly frequent basis. The principle would give them five clouts in each hand, or ten, or- but you had to.

Speaker: And we waited and we waited and we waited and we waited. The lady was indisposed. And we said, "Well, where is she." "Well, she's on the commode." Interviewer: The commode? Speaker: Yeah. So I said to Sara- I said, "Sara, we been here an hour. Let's see if we can get a witness when she's on the commode." (Laughs) We said, "Yup," (laughs) so I said to Sar-- "We (inc) court we can (inc) we got it signed on the commode (laughs)." While she's sitting on the commode (laughs).

the commode (laughs)." While she's sitting on the commode (laughs). <4> And you actually did? <

...couch behind the stove eh? And behind the cook stove and taste warm and he'd have a cup of tea and mum would feed him up and...

Then he got the farm but he had to move the cook stove from back there. And the road was corduroy, you know when they lay the logs across it.

...but you-know, those old catalogues, I-mean, you know the cost of stuff eh? The- you-know a cook stove I-mean is a- it's- you can't believe that they could be that inexpensive…

Well you-see you- ah, we had a little house and just ah m-- a cook-stove to warm up the house, to two-story-log house. And it was hard times and it was…

Speaker: ... had to shoot racoons and it's always at night and I'm always shooting single handed- Speaker 2: (Laughs) Speaker: With a flashlight in my hand. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker 2: (Laughs) (inc)- Speaker: And- Speaker 2: Doesn't work. Speaker: And it's two or three shots. Me getting a coon with a s-- first shot is just about never.

Speaker: ... I think I wouldn't want to meet the bear when I'm picking apples or doing- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Ah, that kind-of-stuff. But we've- um, the f-- I-don't-know, the little coon that I have, she's- she's feeding right now. She's as hungry as anything. She's been over three times today to get food. But I've told her that's it, no more.

And (laughs) ah, but anyway i-- dad would pay them for this wood, you-see? Whenever they needed some money they'd come to the door. They had to say, "Well what do you got, John?" " Oh I got so many cords of wood". They'd say, "How much money do you want?" "Oh, fifty-dollars." So, dad would make 'em out a cheque, 'nd it was usually Sunday morning, eh? So one day dad says, "I can give you cash, John, if you want it". "No, no cash. Want a cheque".

Speaker 1: Yeah. And I've- I used to corn them too. Interviewer: What's that mean? Speaker 2: Feed them corn.

Speaker: Water-glass you-know, that's where you put your eggs in a crock. You ever seen a crock? Interviewer: They- Speaker: Those pottery things.