Speaker: And they had box-socials. Interviewer: Yeah, and what was the kind of socials? Box- Speaker: Box-socials. Interviewer: Oh yes, I hear of the box-socials.

And they- pants on and hard to get people to wear braces to hold their pantses up to their crotch, 'cause of their- crotch was at their knees, they couldn't walk, you-know-what-I-mean?

And my dad did what you call custom hatching of eggs for all kinds of other farmers because they didn't want to be bothered with the time or didn't have the building and the facilities with a brooder stove and the whole kit-and-caboodle, so-

Speaker: 'Cause I remember going to church with a horse and cutter and the buffalo were all going to- heated brick at our feet.

And my dad he used to take the horses and sleigh then and he had a big buffalo robe and we'd ah- he'd have that laid over a foot of straw or so on the- on the sleigh, so we'd get under the buffalo robe and it was a nice ride to school, it was nice and warm you-know?

Because they had the, ah, old Clarke engine that was a bugger to start

So they sort of chummed a bit together.

I know that Keith-Blaine I know him real well, I o-- I chummed with his wife.

And we didn't have- we h-- we had this cistern, we built a big cement tank affair in the basement and we ran the water off the roof into this cistern and that we used for our first bathroom, and bathtub, and laundry and-so-on.

The basement in the house, of course, was never heat- heated and, ah, because there was a cistern there it kept a certain amount of dampness there.

Interviewer: And the Quintons came out from Ireland and settled around Stanleyville, didn't they? Or is that another branch of the family? Speaker: I don't know anything about that clan. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: I know Bella-Tovan's bunch.

Interviewer: My ah, my family's- are the Goodmans. Speaker: Oh, you're the Goodman clan! I was-Interviewer: Going back to the old census' from- and- one of them has- holy cow. Speaker: And they're mixed up with everybody too.

Interviewer: And there's two Farringtons, you're saying, over off the Scotch line? Speaker: Yes there is, they're two different clans. Interviewer: They're- oh, they are two clans? Speaker: And our clan is gone. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Our clan is all gone, now you've got Abbington's clan.

Interviewer: Well, we now- I know I'm a Goodman, way back until about ah fifteen-hundreds. Speaker: Oh, is that right. Oh God. Interviewer: I-don't-know. But (laughs) Speaker: Well our clan, like with Dad, ah, we- we kind of assumed that's how close we've got or as- as close as we got, that we assume who his father and- or grandfather and grandmother were. But we're still slugging away, you-know?

N-- Dad- the only thing Dad ever talked about reading a book- he says you always had to read it with a coal-oil lantern, he said, "That's probably why-

And then it all turned around we- we- too much machinery to work with but nobody would- nobody there to run the machinery. So it just switched ah, it's like cutting wood at the bush ah now like you-know ah I have- oh, I'll usually do twenty-five cords of wood. Now that would be- that would be a quite an undertaking a few years ago because you had to ah cut that wood all up into lengths, like usually made them about twelve feet long.

peaker: It was just a lark. But we didn't have T-V. Interviewer: Of course not. Speaker: Everybody had a radio and that's- but we had all sorts of board games, like Crokinole and Checkers and Snakes-and-Ladders. And of course there was always the whole standby of cards. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: They would be and then as little girls, we all played with dolls and our tea-sets.

And she used to take the horse-and-cutter down.

And that's wagon. It's up in the shed and that cutter is up there. Interviewer: That cutter is beautiful.

'Cause I remember going to church with a horse and cutter and the buffalo were all going to- heated brick at our feet.