So he whenever he caught you and tagged you three times in the b-- back then you had to join the group in the middle. Well, this would go on and when they caught you, if you laid down on your back so they couldn't tag you and- kicked and thrashed and punched and so on, you could lay there as long as was possible and they had to have a whole gang to- to get you. So you got the weak ones- it was like survival of the fittest.

I remember having you-know o-- occasions there where we'd all be on the veranda or-whatever, and then you'd just hear like Dutch jabbering going on, like I wouldn't understand a word of it.

No, no. You'd never go alone. Oh no. We'd sit like little wallflowers or something. And we also had a movie theatre and- not a theatre but in the town hall we had a- um well it was chairs and a thing. And they had a- they'd bring all these old movies and we'd go and sit there on a Friday night, I think it was twenty-five-cents, and- and then the next week you'd have to go 'cause it was a serial.

It’s a little- just a little wee town. And he was a farmer and drover. Tric-- truck cattle to Toronto and-that-and-that, and he got a share in it. So there was ten of us altogether.

Ah but we used to go up and stay overnight and all that at the cottage, but we don't anymore 'cause you have to pack all the stuff up and do that you-know. But our cottage is winterized, we probably could stay if we had to but we've never had really any desire to.

Well, we were- we were very rural community and ah- and we had our own way of saying and ah "ain't" and "yous" and ah all that was quite- quite common and- and quite accepted