Oh, I've had people say, "Oh, you've got the Ottawa-Valley twang," when you'd be way out, you-know? ... Some place they'll say, "You've got the Ottawa-Valley twang." "How do you know?" "Oh, they all talk alike out- down there."

Now the sooner you get back to school and get that twelve, which is a basic education that you have to have, then you will be going someplace. Now you've learned it the hard way, and take it as a lesson.

Interviewer: Something that they'd throw the stumps onto, like- Speaker: Oh, well, a stoneboat, you could call it.

Interviewer: No no, not to- not to um- not to work the land, just to ah, they threw the stumps on- on these things that- Speaker: Oh, oh! A stoneboat. Interviewer: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Speaker: Uh-huh. Yes, stone-boat. Well Dad had lots of them. We had lots of stone-boats. We had two or three of them there. We used to make it out of cedar (inc) you-know? And put boards on them and then put a team of horses and that, and we ah- well in the summertime we- for what we burnt, was pine-roots, you-know pine-nuggets.

Speaker: On the flat. Yeah. Oh yes, that's what they picked the stones on, the stoneboat is what we called them.

Speaker: Well, got your bag and have you go along with a wagon, and stone-boat, or-something, if they were big ones you couldn't get on the wagon you'd put them on the stone-boat and draw them to the fence or stone-wall. Small ones, you have to put them on the wagon.

Speaker: Anything they could make, like on the line of a stoneboat, or hitch them to it.

Speaker: Eh? That was what they used for a stoneboat, or drawing water, or anything they were moving. Interviewer: They didn't call that a snowboat? Like, for on the snow, like a stoneboat on the snow? Speaker: It'd go all dandy on the snow, but um, you're thinking to the- what we call the flat-bottomed stoneboat.

Speaker: Well, they made themselves- a flat thing- a plank and- and rolled the stones onto it. Interviewer: What did they call that? Speaker: Ah a stone-boat. Interviewer: Stone-boat.

Interviewer: Mm-hm. Ah did you have on your farm um um, a kind of low platform on a couple of runners that you- Speaker: Oh yes, a stoneboat, we always called it, yeah.

Interviewer: Uh-huh. Did- what would you call a- a pile of sheaves? Speaker: Stook.

Well, they stooked it up. In stooks. Put about, ah, eight shea-- sheaves in- in a row.

Well, they stooked it up. In stooks. Put about, ah, eight shea-- sheaves in- in a row.

Speaker: Then came the binder with the sheaf-carrier and they carried the sheaves into, ah, six and dropped them off for a stook. [0:15:34.5] Interviewer: Ah, for a- Speaker: For a- a stook. That's what they called, ah- the- the shea-- the sheaves when they're standing up, you-see, to dry and finish. Stook of wheat, stook of rye, stook of, ah-

When I was a boy working on the farm we cradled all the grain by hand, ah, the women- usually the women, ah, raked it up and tied it by hand and- into sheaves. Stook it up.

And the grain, we used to take the binder, cut it and put it into sheaves, stook it out in the field and then go along.

Speaker: Raises them up. Stooked up sheaves (inc). (laughs) Interviewer: These- you stooked the sheaves, that means- Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: That you put the (inc)- Speaker: Oh, I guess it was maybe twelve sheaves to a bundle, you-know. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: And then- Speaker: Eight or twelve. Interviewer: What- what is the bundle called then? Speaker: Well (inc) did you bundle them, put them (inc) up. I can't remember. I think we just bundled them up. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Cut the sheaves and put them in bunches. Stick them together. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And then you, ah- Interviewer: You said that you stook them, that- that one. Speaker: Yes. You stook them- Interviewer: That was the one that you- Speaker: That was after the- Interviewer: Did with the machine? Speaker: After the- the- the, ah- with the, ah, binder. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: You stook them by putting them- Speaker: The binders would show- throw the sheaves out.

Interviewer: Uh-huh. What do you call the little row there? Speaker: That was a stook. Interviewer: Uh-huh. That was a stook. Uh-huh. And, ah, um, is that- that's your- that'

And then you come along and stook them.

Interviewer: You wouldn't put them up into ah- to dry? Speaker: Oh yes, they would be stooks for week or ten days.