Speaker: No. My brothers- he bought us all a pipe too, 'cause you-know them days, you-know you- you smoked ah, tobacco in a p-- chewing tobacco in a pipe. So he bought us all a pipe, my brothers and I, you-know? And if we were over there, he'd give you your pipe to smoke.

Speaker: No I was down in them badlands and I just thinking about that the other day. I didn't know these things them days. They didn't talk about dinosaurs and-so-on when I was young, eh? But I down there and these- what do you call them, hoodians? Hoodans?

Interviewer: Oh so you s-- you would cut logs in the winter? Speaker: Oh yeah. Still do. Interviewer: Still do. Speaker: Oh yeah. Cut wood last winter. Interviewer: So how did you c-- go into the w-- how did you do that in- Speaker: Them days? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Hasket saw. Yes sir.

Big sleighs. My uncle said you walked most of the way because the roads back in them days weren't too good.

All the neighbourhood men there for lunch and she'd have to put on this big spread for lunch and, of course, um, she always had to have pies and the men raved about her pies and her- her cooking, but, ah, yeah, it was- it- the one farmer had the threshing machine and he would bring it over and then all the other farmers would come with their wagons and- and- tractors and- and we'd go out to the fields and throw on all the stooks of grain and bring them back and throw them into the threshing.

Ploughing-Match in Lanark County in um, two-thousand-and-three about five miles across country from here and we had sixteen live tractors over there. Fifteen of them would be what you'd call collectors and the other one was for a demonstration they wanted one. And we took a threshing-mill over which my dad custom threshed for about forty years.

Well, all the antique machinery was in motion, like it was working and Kevin had a- a nineteen-fourteen threshing mill that ah he had bought at ah ... Up at Calebogie, on the other road.

It's not- it's all chain-saws and they have a big timberjacks they- they (inc) with the big machine.

Interviewer: Somebody get in trouble for something they never did? Speaker: Oh well that's just part of growing up I-guess. Interviewer: Yeah? Did you ever get in trouble for something you never did? Speaker: Don't think so. I lived through school without getting a strap. Interviewer: Did anybody get the strap that you knew? Speaker: Oh I think one or two of them may have got them, but it depends on the teacher.

Speaker: Anti-I-Over. Interviewer: Antie-I-Over. I've- that's- that's- explain that. Speaker: Well you'd throw the ball you-see and 'course you start running and if the guy who caught it, he had to tag you, meet me around the school. So whoever ended up with the biggest team you-see, won it. Interviewer: What a fun game. Speaker: And you never knew where this ball was going to come 'cause you had to through it over the school well.

Interviewer: What- what kind of things could happen on a bus that would- Speaker 45: Oh lots of tomfoolery that's still the tomfoolery today but you can't do anything about it. Back then they used to- You know throwing apples out windows or, you-know- They used to smoke and-everything back then.

nd it w-- is in hunting season, I was stand (inc) f-- for a deer. And the dogs were in the bush tonguing. Tonguing means barking

nd it w-- is in hunting season, I was stand (inc) f-- for a deer. And the dogs were in the bush tonguing. Tonguing means barking...

Speaker: Yeah, well um there's- you-know when- there's- there's an adrenaline that goes with the dogs when they're- they're d-- tonguing like and chasing the deer or-whatever or a bear or rabbit. Sometimes you don't always know what they're chasing but their tonguing. Interviewer: And what does that mean, tonguing? Speaker: Tonguing means um, chasing. Like you-know they're- they're- they're- they're chasing something and ah so we call it tonguing. And ah they would um you-know as get closer or further away you'd listen to it- you-know so you'd know well- so- so not too far from them so maybe they'll get a whack at that d-- at the deer or-whatever kind-of-thing.

Speaker: My dad and I were in the car bringing milk in. I thought I heard traces. Like a noise- Interviewer 1: (inc) around, yeah. Speaker: There was the two horses. They split (inc). Interviewer 2: Oh wow. Interviewer 3: (Laughs) Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer 2: (inc) Interviewer 3: You don't remember of course. You were too young.

Interviewer 1: Kara, do you think anybody would know today what a 'whiffletree' is? Speaker: Oh yeah, a few people would. Interviewer 2: Can you describe that to me because I have no clue. Speaker: (Laughs) Interviewer 1: That's a polite way of saying, "Tell me what that is." Speaker: Well, that was a thing about that way. I'd guess when you attach the- the ah, the traces, the traces would be on the- the horse. And they'd attach that to this end and this end and that pulled. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. And someone would make that? Out of wood? Speaker: Well, I guess you'd likely buy it. But that would last for years, yeah.

So Jasper is- not because he Jasper, but he's pretty smart, he's- can turn a tan to most things. So we decided we'd get a house built.

So you- when you do them, you do the rest and rest and work all the way down the road type-thing.

And then on- on the back of this little cement area for the kitchen type-thing, back beyond there was earth floor.

We heads in long long back into the bush type-thing. Then all of a sudden we get on to this big hill.