A toboggan. We just had hand sleighs. Homemade sleigh you-know and- ... We'd go someplace there was a hill and we sliding down (laughs). Then they got the toboggans.

Interviewer: You'd never go to Ottawa for anything? Speaker: Well, a lot of serious cases were to the city. ... Some of them was going to the new one now, new hospital or someplace.

And my grandfather Arkwright, he was (coughs)- he was travelling some place in parish Dyke when this girl was out getting some water and he stopped to- to get a drink and to water his horse and that's where he met my grandmother.

Well they just go down with like the flies and what, I don't know. ... I think they just crawl in some place and- 'course a lot of them all die.

... they would have to take them to the end of a lake someplace where they could put them into a creek or a river- ... Where the water was moving.

And uh, years ago you never heard of that unless the cattle wandered under a tree someplace, they were struck with lightening.

Interviewer: What happened to the ashes? Speaker: Well, we would have a- a place, possibly behind a building someplace where they weren't seen where we disposed of the ashes.

... well the horses pretty well went themselves, you just uh, put the reins onto the uh, um, wagon someplace and uh, mother would- would drive, plus when my father would put the hay onto the wagon, mother would tramp it down to see that she could- and place it-

Oh yeah, it- well- some place where the other hens wouldn't crowd them off. You closed up- we closed the nest up, partly, so that the others hens couldn't get in. And then you'd have to, um, let them out once a day, to feed and eat, exercise.

Interviewer: Where would these birds nest? Speaker: The swallows under the eaves of the barn, the sparrows ah, well, any place they- around the buildings, someplace. But the swallows- we liked them, but the sparrows were not maybe always so clean.

Oh, I've had people say, "Oh, you've got the Ottawa-Valley twang," when you'd be way out, you-know? ... Some place they'll say, "You've got the Ottawa-Valley twang." "How do you know?" "Oh, they all talk alike out- down there."

Now the sooner you get back to school and get that twelve, which is a basic education that you have to have, then you will be going someplace. Now you've learned it the hard way, and take it as a lesson.

Well then she died a few years ago here, his wife, ah and I forget where she was, she was in a nursing-home someplace. They had no family. They did have a child and it died.

Nothing. And now um there was piece on Aunt-Keira-Reese, she musta belonged up there someplace. But anyway she married a Morgan.

And the stagecoach took the tourists from here out to where Charleston, that's down on Lake-Joseph someplace.

Then they built a um a house, it'd be- it would be a shack really, it's just be something liveable, out on the other side of the Tallyho where you go out on to one-forty-one, out in there someplace. And ah they walked in from there to where Dex-Hayle lives now and cleared the land and built the house there.

Interviewer: ... that's such a lovely window; you must've planned this house exactly the way you wanted it. Speaker: Well, (laughs) ah Brendan was in the- ... he like done building for- for people and we were out at a cottage around McKeller someplace and they had a picture window and where you sat with this picture window- ...

Well, you- you work one place in the summertime and then, you had- it slackened off and you'd have to go whereever some place was busy. They wanted men there. They'd just give you a track for (inc) days.

I'll be working up some place or another you-know, and they- oh- "I worked with your two boys," you-know. (laughs)

Come in in the morning about eight o'clock, you-see. And come in about eight o'clock at night. I was home at night all the time, unless I was away some place.