So whenever- he was waked at home, which was not very good either for the thirteen year old.

Yes they had the- he was waked in the house. And that was a bad memory.

The- we had a wood stove. We had the two girls down the morning, sit them up over the warming closet, one on each side the stovepipe, you-know? To get in, yeah? Joseph would have the fire going and- Interviewer 1: So you remember more of the good times by the sounds of it.

ery close to it. Ah virgin pine is- is- they're- they're just- they're straight up and they're only wee few limbs atop. You can drop it down and you got a log right like that and um I always look for tho

Anyway, the coyotes come in the area. Then they were so scared the coyotes would get their dogs- they'd some wee pets. So they got their hired man, see if he could get permission to go and hunt where the coyotes were.

It's just ah s-- small heaps of hay and then you'd move ahead and make another coil. And then when it dried a wee bit, you'd throw it on to the wagon and bring it to the barn (laughs). But she even done that. Some, not very much for she'd five kids to look after.

He said, "No you need the- you need the practice," he said, "You need to practice because I- I don't intend to raise pigs." So, okay so I- I done the operating and ah- I done operating on wee pigs, lots of people.

My mother raised- she raised three pigs up at the farm before she left the farm. She had- she had three wee pigs, she called them Faith, Hope and Charity.

Oh yes. Anything I know about fixing anything or like y-- (inc) animals, shouldn't be telling you this but to castrate a wee pig, I got that from my dad.

There's something about raising a wee chicken that I just love to listen to them peep, and peep, and peep.

She was oldest. She was a great girl. She still is. She's only a wee short thing but she's...

So this chap in and he said, "Lady," he said, "You're not standing up," Well I said, "I'm only- I'd-" little wee glass of this- looked like eggnog but it was brown. So I- I had that and I said I'm going down to the shores to wait. So I thought will they come before the scow comes in?

Lawrence and- and ah, him come- down into the bush there and met a wee black dog here and he went down into this groundhog's hole. (inc) this is where the- the old lady had her cubs down in there.

Oh dear. Up in the wee loft f-- try-- trying to fill it with hay, you-know. The- you're far- d-- a hand up into the m-- into the- a hole up- in the loft and they had the (inc) and back a little piece to fill up the end, the back end.

Otherwise, you know if they were wet and sweating and you feel sorry for them and- and you'd maybe wash their shoulders down. Some of them would be starting to scald a wee bit where the shoulder on the r-- collar- maybe was them down a bit. With a tractor, well I- I enjoyed it.

So our other son, he was gone him around in a wee wagon. And when he seen them coming over just galloping their best. They were heading for the barn.

Yeah there were- the team that I had, the- there was ah- I was cutting hay and ah, wh-- the- the- the wee little mare, she w-- she was- she wasn't the- she was a little j-- jittery

Yeah, more than once, yeah. Wee foal ah kicked me. The mark of each hoof was right on my legs there.

Move off to a wee bit to the side of the trail and you sit quietly by- by a tree or-something.

Oh the wee black dog and he wasn't afraid of anything.