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Buggy

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1773, OED Evaluation: N/A

A light one-horse (sometimes two-horse) vehicle, for one or two persons. Those in use in America have four wheels; those in England and India, two; in India there is a hood. (In recent use, esp. in U.S., India, and former British colonies.)

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Yes and he ran it good too. He wouldn't- he wou-- his- ah brought him up here like (inc) to come (inc) come up here at night with his steer in the- in the buggy. He was- he was good.
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Well yeah. When he got older you-know I used- he wasn't able to harness the horse to go to town, so I used to go over and harness the horse for him and- and take him- get on the buggy and-Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Pick him up. And he'd let me drive right to there.
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Well, it was a parade and I don't know what time of year it took place but everybody decorated their horses. It was sort-of a pre-automobile thing, I think they ended it with the- with the twenties, and you decorated your wagons and your buggies and everybody went out and drove and it was called ah- ah Calathompian parade.
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So I would, ah, get books and then it got- what do you do with them? So I put them in a buggy- we had one old buggy that came from Merrickville, I guess, in the store and just put "free" on them. And then the buggy get kind of overdone so then we get the shelf out front and that's still going. It's amazing.
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Ah, and I think it was all done by horse and buggy type-thing, like, yeah, yeah. I believe that was how it was done.
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...and of course he wanted to visit so- but dad had to get back on the train so he sat there on that feet a-- in the buggy and went all up, up to the village of Pakenham chatting a mile a minute
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And my- I'm only about a mile-and-a-half from Pakenham. So Dad hopped on a train, then the very next morning came down to Pakenham and Sid-Arnolds, his- his friend met him with the horse-and-buggy at the- a-- and then at the at the station, he took him out to the farm and that- it was a no-go. Just didn't click, at all.
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She said, "I really think, and when we think about it, the one thing to do was get into a farm that's close enough that they can walk to high-school or you-know so- or- or drive to high-school on a horse-and-buggy but that was it. So as soon as he went out the door with his- they'll bring him and "Yes, we'll tell." And they got on the phone.
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He delivered it with the horse and cutter, or the horse and buggy.
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Speaker: Well in the olde-- it was the old days, very few people had cars. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: So if people wanted to go some place, they walked or drove a buggy.
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Imagine little girls, out by themselves, not afraid of anything. We'd go to the back and we'd see where the cherry trees had been, where the buggies were still there, the history of the f-- the whole farm. Just walking and wandering.
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Well, there's no other way to say it. Um, but the- the, ah, families would gather at, ah, the farm and, of course, beautiful summer times under the oaks and, ah, buggy rides. Grandma would have, I-don't-know, an old buggy there. I-mean, it would be the kind-of-thing from eighteen-hundreds. And the kids would make their own fun, like, jump into the buggy, let it run down the hill to the creek, you-know, jump back in again.
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Oh, just- he just a r-- ah down-to-earth redneck, he's a- he's ah very genuine and he just like to party and you-know, um so it was pretty ah great for us to be able to do that. I wasn't very old at the time but I was i-- I rode in the buggies and then i-- helped to look after the horses when we were down at the grounds and-stuff-like-that.
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Yeah, my dad always um was a-- interested in horses and showing them in- at the fairs and-stuff and then we had buggies and-stuff-like-that that we used to ah take around. We did some weddings. We pulled Stompin'-Tom when he was in Carleton-Place through the- yeah. Ah we had two buggies, we had the three-seater that day and we had ah- I think the one-seater.
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Horse and buggy in ah- until I was in grade-nine, I-guess, we didn't have a car.
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Speaker: Ah, no, single, it was always ah, a buggy, so we all were in it somehow. Interviewer: That would be a considerable distance with the horse.
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Yes. So I assumed dad drove us over to Blakeney, horse and buggy and we got on the train and that's- then we came home that way. Now that only lasted for a couple of years and then we had a car so he could come for us. We boarded in town.
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Well you know that's something that I didn't do a lot. I don't think I ever went to town in the horse and buggy. But the team and sleigh, yes. A team and sleigh. But my dad has a car. Now- and 'course it wouldn't run in the wintertime because the road weren't ploughed, okay.
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I was just going to say another thing I had here was our milk was delivered to the door, unpasteurized and we're still living and we're eighty. But we had this old lady, she came in a horse-and-buggy and she brought the milk in w-- in glass bottles, didn't she?
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Speaker: Ah, no I don't think I remember that. Interviewer: No. Speaker: I remember going to school with a- on a horse and buggy.
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