Applied to free men or women engaged as servants.
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Is a hot job. I know never did that. My dad or- sometimes we'd have a hired man for the summer months. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
| Example | Meaning |
... after the war we had, the Czechoslovakian immigrant came over and ah, he couldn't speak English but they'd come over, they had to spent like two years on a farm so he was a hired man and we taught how to speak English and he taught us how to swim. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
| Example | Meaning |
... that flu epidemic of nineteen-eighteen and nineteen. So he hired my mother who had just got out of public school to look after the two little girls. She was sixteen then eh. And then ah he hired another lady to look after the house 'cause he had two or three hired men especially in the summertime and, one near home, my grandfather was there and ah- and the two girls, my two older sisters- half-sisters but they're always our sister you-know. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
They were between- next door to us, and Earl had two houses; one for the hired man, one for themselves. So he had the the two houses, he needed one more. So he asked Dad and Dad said no he had one more payment left on the farm and kind-of, he borrowed the money from ah from the government. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
And they were short. My dad and- they were thick-set heavy arms and everything. And I was a p-- near a foot taller than he was but- but not not that much, about six inches I guess. But anyways, and he could lift stuff eh. So the hired men from the farm down the road come up to (inc) when the- when the gas truck come in and fill the barrels. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
Speaker: ... that'll be four hundred and fifty pounds, a little lighter than that. But then you had the weight of the seal barrel, and he picked that up and put it there. Interviewer: He picked it up! Speaker: I heard, so then one day down the road, where the hired man- this hired man was working, that guy come in there. And this was a great big guy, farmer down there he was- weighed probably two forty or-so but he was a little bit on the pudgy side so. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
So anyways the Old Ebbe picks us up and- Old Don. And he'd been an alcoholic, lived in Montreal. And ah a hired man was giving us the history. He was a German fellow. He and his wife, Arie and Burt-Gram, they were great people and they- they ah- they kind-of give us the history of the farm. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
| Example | Meaning |
... I didn't- I knew who he was and you-know but I don't know whether we ever- now I know that his father was the hired man. There were lots of hired men around because often me-- the husbands would be killed in farm accidents but there weren't- ... |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
