when you're stooking you wouldn't be running all over the place. You'd have a windrow of sheaves and a windrow of sheaves and then you go out and you stook it all by hand and then go out and load it up and- but see th-- n-- no- nobody- nobody does that anymore.

So if you're ever doing it the way you should be doing it, when you got to the end of that pile when you go round and round and round the field, you'd have a row of sheaves here and a row of sheaves here and a row of sheaves here all into the centre and when you started to- to stook, you can start here and you stooked to the centre and then you can come back here and the you go back there and- and then you had them all in a row.

And when- when you're- then ah- and if you're watch what your doing when you're stooking, you can (inc) down the- the row of stooks so that you- you went down this way and the guy put them all on that side of the wagon and the guy on the wagon building, built a load like it was (inc) day before.

On a- I d-- ah, ah, when I got into the hospital I had to see this woman, and I says "You-know I was going to go to strawberry supper tom-- tomorrow night." And she says "Oh you'll be able to go." ... Interviewer: "Get me up out of here. I can't be laying here 'cause I'm going to the strawberry supper tonight." ... the (inc) fire guy is still chuckling about that-

So if you're sitting here a lot and reading and you could be watching T-V or you could be reading a book or doing a puzzle and you go to sleep and if there is a build up, you want the sucker at the same level as what you're breathing or sleeping because it'll go off.

On a- I d-- ah, ah, when I got into the hospital I had to see this woman, and I says "You-know I was going to go to strawberry supper tom-- tomorrow night." And she says "Oh you'll be able to go."

After we got all the work done on the farm and after supper we used to grab our fish-poles and head for- it was a- about a half a mile back to the creek.

James-Dawson was my boss and I told him one day I was going to retire and they- he said "Well w-- we got to send you down to the States for a course, down in Schenectady."

Same thing's going on in The-States. They ah, there's a White-Supremist down there, there's all kinds of problems with the people that- what their attitude is towards the Black people, they're all trying to gloss it over and say it's fine. But it's not. I've been to m-- meetings, a lot of meetings, when I was involved in the- in the Labour-Union, and I've sat with people in The-States. And you could tell from the conversation, you're having a few beers and they'd get off the track and get talking about stuff. And it's just as hostile among certain areas- ... As it was fifty years ago.

Oh, give him something in one thing- he didn't give any- didn't do any good. So she took him to Toronto and of-course he'd had peritonitis, and at them days they didn't have the antibiotics that they have now. And that's- he died. So that's our last f-- brother.

That was the one paper I always l-- looked forward to. To get my patterns and-things-like-that. I'd get- "Oh there's something I'd like," and I'd take that out and you'd be sending for that pattern. The patterns are on-- in them days were only about fifteen or twenty-five cents. But they're a whole lot more now (laughs).

And then later on at six-o'clock the- come back down through to- to Port-Hope again from Peterborough. The trains tro-- turned around in Peterborough all the time. They had a turntable in Peterborough and ah, they used to turn the- turn the engine around. Interviewer: Turn the r-- so they could go back the other away. Speaker: Yeah so they could go back the other way.

Interviewer: It's a kind-of a combination- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Or-something. Speaker: Yeah, it's a combination type-thing-

But that was a stop-over for the horses. There was a water-trough there with the water run into it out at- on- on a spring all the time, and that's where they stopped and they got the- they watered up the horses.

So you- when you sheaves in (inc) when your stooking you wouldn't be running all over the place. You'd have a windrow of sheaves and a windrow of sheaves and then you go out and you stook it all by hand and then go out and load it up and- but see th-- n-- no- nobody- nobody does that anymore. Interviewer: No, that's right. And so what's a windrow.

th-- n-- no- nobody- nobody does that anymore. Interviewer: No, that's right. And so what's a windrow. Is it just the- the row of sheaves in the field? Speaker: Yeah, well see depending on how heavy the crop was, if it was a light crop, where you'd have maybe a windrow of sheaves like you didn't want to have a whole bunch. You had maybe- by the time you put about four or five sheaves on this thing- then you- you just let your foot off it and it tripped and it dropped it in a pile.