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Ah, okay, I watched his three kids for long time- couple of years here too eh? And like I says, I- there's so many families around the area that I have- oh yeah I just dropped off and I was known as the babysitter ... |
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... he came in- he says oh you have a bunch of- now you have good k-- kids and they were just going to fire off al-- run off that platform and I says, "Ah! Ah! Ah!" And they all had- sat down back and they're with their hands folded (laughs). And then he asked what was going on. he says- and I says, "You just tell him what you were doing." And they were throwing apples and that- that was not allowed eh? |
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... they didn't like thunderstorms. That was when they were younger, I should say, maybe eight, ten years old. And I says I hope there's a big thunderstorm because they'd- they'd have to hug one another to keep warm and (laughs)- and 'cause they were scared of thunderstorm (laughs). |
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Half-an-hour later she's back scratching, I says, "Go to bed." Then I got up. Next morning she came back and I says, "Go to bed." She never came back. But now, she won't come. |
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And we always- she had Buckley's. And so I got Sophie raised on Buckley's and she loves it but at first she used to hate it. I says, "You got to take it," I said, "It's the best thing." |
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I met her at the train station, and ah, just, the figures got more than I could handle. And up she come, so- "Well, what are you going to do?" Well I says, "I got to wait 'til Monday or Tuesday, my turn comes." 'Cause they were coming in from the west in train loads and everywhere else. |
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She said "Oh!" she said, "We got to-" and I- I says (inc)- So I says, "You go home, and ge-- send as many trucks as you can for cattle 'cause I got- they want them cattle the hell out of here." |
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Speaker: ... If you want to start, Monday morning." Ah, he says, "There'll be somebody here to count, and you pay him. Interviewer: And what day was- and what day was this? Speaker: This was Saturday. So I says, "Good." So I had to buy a new elevator to run the hay out of the barns onto the trucks. We started loading and I hired two men that come up from home to help me. And we loaded barns day and night. |
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So he phoned me Wednesday morning, he said, "That catch in the flooring, can you cover it?" And I'd put eleven tractor trail loads into a guy at Richmond. I says "I sure can, no trouble," and down I went and got my cheque and brought it back and ah, here we are. I covered it all and went ahead. Oh, them- them barns of hay did me a pile of good. |
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So I went in to the bank manager was cheery, "Oh yeah, we'll write her up." Oh, he said, "Just a minute Keith, things have changed." I says, "Oh, what's wrong." Well he said, "You owe us thirty-two-thousand dollars. And we're only taking fifty-percent and you've got to get appraised and your appraisal ain't going to be what you think it is because you were appraised-" what was it? |
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I come in at the dinner table and I just took to cry, I says, "we've lost her all this time." And she says, "You know Keith, I don't feel the damn bit sorry for you." "I- How do you mean?" |
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I said, "A hell of a way of looking at it, I lost everything I owed this morning if I didn't have this." And "How you're so smart?" Then I says, "I've got good friends." That night, every other person who was- five of them- phoned me that night and offered to- so glad to help me and give me the money. The whole five of them and I couldn't get a dollar off of anybody here. |
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Speaker: I went to grade-eleven. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And that- I know, ah, when I got the final exams, I had failed a bunch of subjects, and I says, "I can't- I didn't fail that one, I know that for a fact." She says, "Why?" I says, "She passed, didn't she?" And she said yes. Well I says, "I copied m-- most of her answers." (laughs) |
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Ah- I think it's- um, I keep getting that name- she kept saying, "Well, why do you keep getting that name- you can't say that name." I says, "Well, I think it's because you're stressing it so much, like-" I think it's Onaping. |
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Speaker: In the year two-thousand. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Everything was supposed to collapse. And my son, they got provisions that- my basement was full of soup and cans and whatnot. I says, "I am not letting anybody frighten me again that way 'cause it didn't happen in nineteen-sixty, it's not going to happen in two-thousand." |
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