You were eating for your supper- ... You were working for your supper. ... Or the supper in fall maybe, you-know growing- whether we garden or whatever? ... You-know? That lesson could be taught to a lot of them now-a-days couldn't it?

And, ah, so grandpa got up in the morning and got dressed and came into our part of the house for breakfast and then he worked all day with my father and had his lunch or dinner and supper at night. So grandma didn't have to get any meals during the day. She got the meals on Sunday for grandpa. But that was it.

So anyway, away I went that afternoon, I come home about supper time, ah loaded right up and so I bought- the first thing I bought was a kitchen stove for two dollars.

So we work 'til early the morning 'til supper time, but that's how long it takes to do them all. There wasn't one horse who didn't plan out among the whole works. They all went good.

Now the first night was a great big supper for all the members of parliament and the dignitaries. You-know the long dresses and the tuxedoes and all.

All the time you're there, you and your men fed at dinnertime, fed at supper, slept at night, worked the next day, I've got cash, we'll leave right. Dave-Parson, he come out, "Keith!" "Yeah?" "I got to leave. I left you the same cheque on the table."

The only trouble is your teamster had no place to walk. He couldn't walk in with the log and the horse with no room ...

I bought a team of horses off Eileen-Barkes in Charlotte-Lake for three-thousand dollars. And I met a lad in Arnprior that wanted them awful damn bad. ... he was an awful poor teamster. But anyways, I had to show him how to drive and they planned out perfect for him.

Speaker: That- Nigel was well dressed and he was tough, you-know? ... Good teamster though. G-- oh yeah. We raised him.

And then there was some of them that- my parents were teetotallers so they didn't go to the Perth hotel or any place like that

So I was on the hind- hind tit for a long time.

Speaker 2: One- there your group at Christie-Lake. One house to another. Speaker: And one at Dewitt's, one at Glen-Tay. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: I think there was one at Brook, wasn't there? Speaker 2: Probably. Speaker: I'm not sure about the Scotch-Line. Interviewer: Yeah it was something ah- just ah- Speaker: B-- Interviewer: As an aside it was something C-B-C- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Um and the- and that adult education group, Canadian-Association-for-Adult-Educ--

Interviewer: And on your mom's side? Where- where were they from? Speaker: They were- they were Wallaces. Interviewer: As of the Wallaces who were in Perth and- Speaker 2: Ah- Interviewer: Had a cottage on Pike-Lake, or- another Wallace? Speaker: No, they were from- they lived on the Scotch-Line here.

Speaker: But I wanted to tell you something about- about El-- Ellwood, too, now, E-- Ellwood had a- had a pretty good eyesight. And when you were up on the- u-- upper end of that Scotch-Line, there was, my two cousins, my laws, and Jill, and there was Glenda-Mason, and there was Maud-Potter, it was- And Ellwood, his eyes got bigger and bigger all- all at once ...

... he said, "all them girls at the j-- they'd all skinny-dipped there, and they'd dive off that," and you-know-what, Ellwood-Dade never missed a trick. There, he said, "That's the nicest thing in the Scotch-Line." (all laugh)

... I was born in Schumacher. And ah, ah, then- then moved back to Renfrew, and then we moved to the Scotch-Line, and never- and I can't afford to move since, so-

But my dad worked- he- he- and- and I don't know if you knew that, but my dad worked for Hydro, years when- before, ah, and- and when- when the br-- drew the hydro up to Scotch-Line, my dad drew that hydro line up to Scotch-Line, past where Christian-Dempsey's up is, he drew that hydro line up there with old Jace and Dolly ...

Yup, Gus-Bruce had the one lamp, and only- and I think it was two-hundred watt bulb, wasn't it, Alan? Something like- so you'd know there was a light on coming up the Scotch-Line. And then- and then you'd know th-- that the girl up the road, her- her pants were down, so you'd know-

... I was born in Schumacher, w-- with, ah, Shania-Twain about forty years later. (laughs) But no, I remember living in Schumacher, but then I lived in Renfrew, and then I lived on the Scotch-Line, and I can't afford to move since.

And he could do anything with horses. A horse- a horse would always lay down his belly for my dad. You-know- and that- and he knew h-- knew how to handle them. Ah- but- you-see, when- like, even when we moved to Scotch-Line, I didn't know anything but- we lived o-- and my dad got that a-- like, he was working for Ontario-Hydro, and- and whatever, and- but- ah- when- when he got- Edgar-Howard got sick, a-- 'cause Edgar was just a young man, he was only-