Speaker: And the requirements for a dairy contract were rigid. Like, real rigid. In the fall when you put your cows out on what they call second cut in those days, if you weren't careful that would create a gas and it would blow the tops right off the milk, ah, bottles, you-know? Like, they were glass bottles. ... Interviewer: And did they also look then at the feed when you were talking about the- Speaker: No, they never bothered with that. Interviewer: 'Cause you were saying with the second cut of the- Speaker: That was a seasonal thing. ... It would only- it would only take place probably August and September. ... Because that's when your second cut come along, you-know? ... But it was, ah- yeah, you had to be careful anyway because your cows would bloat on that. And if you weren't taught what- they just died. Like, they just blew up and (inc) their heart out.

Do you remember- remember the night, ah, E-- ah- Ellwood, you dropped, ah, the- ah- sheaf of- of grain on top of her out- head out here at the end of the- at the end of the driveway. (burps)

Speaker: Remember- remember that? You were- I was driving the team of horses, and you were standing ahead of the- and you dropped it, she was riding the bicycle up there, and you dropped this sheaf of- of- of grain on her. Speaker 2: Who was this? Trying to get her attention. Speaker: Hit her- hit her right in the top of the head. Hit her right in the top of the head.

Speaker 2: But they lived on the Scotch-Line, did they? Speaker: Oh yeah, and ah, and I remember you dropped, ah, the sheaf ah, of grain on her.

Speaker: Tiffany-Miller, yeah? Speaker 2: Yeah, that could've- it could've been that. Dean d-- Speaker: You dropped the sheaf of l-- Speaker 2: Oh, well I don't remember that, but- Speaker: Well I remember, I w-- I was driving the horses, and you had the she-- and you threw the sh-- she was riding the bicycle up the road, and you threw the sheaf of- ah, and hit her in the top of the head. Speaker 2: I don't remember that one. Speaker 2: I think she was mad at you after.

Cut wood. Fall the tree and skid it to the landing and land it back and pile it up. Pretty well all hand work but you did it all with horses.

... just going dandy and then come the labour lords, you-know to check us all out ... Well I says, "Why wouldn't you leave us alone." He says, "I guess but it's not in the book. It's not in the book. If it's not in the book, you couldn't do it." Well I said, "To hell with your book." I said, "Make common sense, the man that wrote that book, he never to the bush in his life." So anyways, went back to that and it worked great. Got along good. So that's how we skidded.

And we started at seven-o'clock in the morning in the back lawn to take these horses and you put ropes on to trip them. Throw them down. Turn them up on their back and geld them, you-know-what-I-mean? And if they'd any bad feet, you'd grab the snips and see that their feet were ready to go. Turn them over, put the saddle on them and this is one thing that is a terrible again.

Where is she living? In town some place?

I think they went to school up around (inc) some place.

He would have a big ice-house then some place.

Is that- there was one some place and they didn't get though somewhere.

What would I do without this guy, you-know? ... I would be way up in Maberly someplace.

That was our summer holiday. We'd go to Perth for one day. ... And, we'd go in there and dad would park the twenty-nine Durant, up near Bain's there some place on a side street, and ah he'd go and do his shopping or whatever he had to do, and we would kind of be on our own, but we'd be expected to be back at that car by such a time, and here we were, country bumpkins running ...

And in nineteen-forty-one or two in there someplace, ah I was five years old so it had to be forty-one, I started school in the Moss-School which was a mile north of our place.

He wanted us to be successful and so we have our little patch of carrots and- and-whatever. And we had our own little bush and there be some rocky knoll in a field someplace that wasn't any good for fields and just a rocky island in a field, and each of us would kind of mark off our little bush.

... once he went to Kingston on his honeymoon and ah, he was in the States once I think in his lifetime so that's, that was typical travel then. You just didn't have the- you didn't go off to Florida for ten days and then someplace else and someplace else.

And she had, I think, three sisters. And herself included, they were all spinsters.

I had a hell of a job to hit the ball, but if I ever did, I would just take off, and then- then I'd have to lift up some of my fellow players that were trying to get home, because they were spraddled with their skis like this here.

Speaker: It was the day they were in Samuel-Payne's going out the goddamn laneway, I never had to feed the bastards ever again. Speaker 2: And run and try to catch them with ropes, eh? Speaker: (sighs deeply) Speaker 2: And they wouldn't come- Speaker: The stinking sons-of-bitches, they were gone. Speaker 2: Because they knew they would have to work like a bastard all day.