I didn't eat very much supper, so I went to bed early.

The old woman had a nice supper or breakfast (laughs) I-don't-know what, waiting at me on the table.

When, ah, we were coming- I was sitting at the fire, I was done, do-you-see, and the man that drove us up was sitting, and then I sat down beside him at the stove, waiting to have the supper, waiting 'til Cohen got through, do-you-see, with his orders. And we were going to have our supper. They wouldn't let us away without it.

But I just love there- I go up, ah, sometimes after eating me supper, and I'm afraid to undress meself, but I have my daughter put a nice little lamp over the head of the bed, right- hanging on the- on the bed. And a lovely light.

You had the wedding supper and then you had the wedding party. Quite often after you-see. (Clears throat) Big dance.

See at that time you'd leave at six-o'clock in the morning to be at work at seven and you work ten hours and then you went back and had your supper and it'd be uh, after seven and you'd walk down another two miles for a swim at the lake-

Interviewer: Mm-hm. So your night meal then would be the big meal? Speaker: And then- big meal then she always had potatoes and meat and- vegetables and- and uh, either pudding or pies- Interviewer: Mm-hm. What did she call that evening meal? Speaker: Uh, well it was supper. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: At that time it was- we called it supper. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Now I think it's dinner.

... mother would uh, be cooking maybe two or three days ahead making pies and cakes and etcetera for these men that would come, they'd be there for dinner and supper and uh-

Interviewer: What was that meal called? Speaker: Dinner. Interviewer: Is that considered your big meal? Speaker: That was our- that was our big meal, then for supper we would fry the potatoes in butter that we had left over from the dinner meal and um, I can't just remember if we uh, we usually would have uh, maybe cold pork for supper and um, then dessert, mother made a lot of cakes we always had dessert.

... and the cellar of course was under the house and there was possibly seven steps which led down into the cellar and it was really cold and she took all of her things like butter, milk and um the potatoes that we would warm over for supper. Everything was kept in this cellar and she kept it very clean and there was nothing on the floor, just the ground, the bare ground and uh, it was just as cold as could be, nothing ever spoiled.

Speaker: Mosquitoes, we had mosquitoes we had the creek behind the house- Interviewer: Oh, yes. Speaker: And uh, we- we never could eat supper without building what we ca-- when the- in the mosquito season, we always- my mother always built a smudge. ... You couldn't eat supper at all in the summer kitchen without this smudge under the table and the smoke would- would come up from under the table but it didn't bother us at all we ate on-

... Mother used to get three- four meals during the days. There was breakfast quite early. There was lunch, I don't know what it'd be called now, at about ten-o-clock, then there was dinner, at about twelve, and then there was another tea about three, and then supper at six.

Interviewer: Mm-hm. What things would be served for breakfast? Speaker: Oh, anything, any meat, or potatoes was leftover from supper, was warmed up, and then there was always cereal, rolled oats, usually.

Speaker: The late meal, well, there would be meat served, then, and ah, preserves again, or-something-like-that, pudding or- Interviewer: Mm-hm. And what would that meal be called? Speaker: Supper. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Mm-hm. That must have kept the housewife going, six- Speaker: I- I'd never have the dishes done, I don't think.

First thing you put on was the collar. And then you put the hames, throw them over their back and buckle the hames on, belly-band, surcingle or two between the legs- front legs and the belly-band went through it and you buckled. ... That was for if you wanted to back up. That's what went on the neck yoke and you backed up.

Speaker: And then um- the tray- ah, no there was ah- another affair attached to the shafts, too. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Something that went around the horse's hindquarters? Speaker: Oh yes, the ah- ah- cruppers, I-think, went around the tail. Interviewer: Yes, yes. And what about the ah part that fastened underneath the horse's- Speaker: Ah no, that surcingle was used on a blanket, I don't know what the- I- I've forgotten it.

Apart from- now in the church we had, ah, every fall, they called it the tea meeting but it- it was really just, ah- we, ah- like, every family would take a basket. And, ah, they'd go and they'd go to this hall or church hall and, ah, the- the mothers would make a dinner and everybody went.

Speaker: They called it the tea meeting. And that- Interviewer: Why do they call it tea? Speaker: We had that every fall. Interviewer: Why did they call it a tea meeting if you- if your mothers made dinners? Speaker: Well, ah, I don't know why they called it the tea meeting. Interviewer 2: 'Cause the- 'cause the next meal is your tea isn't it? Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer 2: (laughs)

Speaker: But, no, ah, it was the tea meeting and we all went and- and we would go, like, for supper. And then they'd have a program after that. Interviewer: Oh, I see. Speaker: A Christmas program. And it was always in the fall. But when- you-know, when- and it wasn't a tea. It wasn't a meal like what you have now. We- we would have baked bean and- and potatoes and- and you never heard of a solid or-anything-like-that, you had pickles or Jell-O, you-know, that's a way back.

Speaker: Well my mother would take and cut that down the middle. ... And those would be hemmed for dish towels. We girls, my sister and I learned first the running stitch on making tea towels. Then we got- Interviewer: Is a tea towel the same as a dish towel? Speaker: Yes. ... Yes. A dish towel. ... And- and then we got to hemming. We used to get fine salt in little sacks and my mother would bleach the lettering out of those and we hem- hem- we learned to hem them ...