A little or young thing
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And just down a wee bit on that left hand side as you're going down that way. There used to be a beautiful home in there that Mister-Frederick lived in, they tore it down, put a motel in there. |
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I suppose so, yeah. Well when I'd left- no, no that- I'm jumping ahead of myself a wee bit here. I went to diamond-drilling |
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And Scottish terminology, "wee bairn" and-things-such-as-that that, ah, I grew up, ah listening to. Ah, they never did- my grandmother particularly never did lose her accent completely. Even though she was here for many, many years. My grandfather lost it a bit. My father and ah uncles and- two uncles on that side never had the accent whatsoever. |
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Yeah, you-know it was- i-- I l-- we lived in a little wee house that was maybe- maybe four-hundred-square-feet. It was a tiny little house. |
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So the- so the leprechauns would go through the house and there'd be a trail all the way through and at the end would be ah the treasure- the- the little green box and it would be full of- full of little wee green treasure things |
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And I had- one of my sons was al-- ha-- ha-- al-- had allergies. So ah, there was no pets. The only pet I think we had was a turtle. Was little wee turtles (laughs). |
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Speaker: So the day I quit working she came over, gave me the puppy and gave me all the papers and she said, "She's yours." So she ga-- Interviewer: That must have been the most wonderful experience. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, she was just a little wee thing. She was just a year old. |
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Yeah, little kids, you-know, they're maybe two, three years old, and they got a little box of Chiclets, little wee candies. And they're going around "Chiclet? Chiclet?" So you give them a penny, and you went to take a Chiclet, and they'd grab it back, "Oh no." They wanted the money but they didn't want to give you the Chiclet. |
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She could with the stuff she went through. But jumping ahead just a little wee bit, we've lost the one native girl. |
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He- he- he did that all through the year. There were two teachers like that, did that to me. And when I got to grade-eight, she was the best teacher I ever had. She little wee, short lady and ah she knew I was having problems so she s-- asked me to stay after school for two nights, two days. |
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Well our bedpan, it wasn't one they put under the- it was- we had a little room ups-- in the- the house there, it had th-- one, two, three- three bedrooms upstairs I-guess and this little wee tiny room like a closest. We had a- like a little box thing with a pail on it with a lid on top like a toilet seat. |
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And of course if we were busy doing something we didn't like it, we'd chase him and I re-- I recall one time, I chased him out in the horse part of the barn. He went up between the horses. Well I give the horse a wee jab with a fork and the horse would jump forward |
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Where the quilt barn, well that was our farm. Well of course our house was just down a wee bit. Well we had to walk into town. |
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And then there's this little- little-wee rock-cut before fairly large corner, and there's the old homestead, but you can hardly see it anymore and the new houses up on top |
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Interviewer: That must have been- Who was? Joan? Speaker: Yeah, she was Beaver-Leader. Interviewer: Beaver-Leader. Speaker: That's the little wee kids. |
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Yeah she um she um lived on Lakeshore property and ah I was on- lived on Main-Street then and we used to go to school together and she came up to here on me. You-know she was just a little wee thing and she um we were good friends- we're still friends. I don't- I- she hears from me at Christmas and I hear from Christmas sort-of-thing and I don't know. |
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Speaker: You-know scared the shit out of me- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: I was just a little wee kid. |
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I was married at twenty-one. And I lived in this little wee wee house. And then I had my son and um I worked at Westing-House, which was in Swastika too. |
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t w-- it- all in the thing. I married a school teacher and I lived in a little, wee house two doors down from that street and then we moved into Chaput-Hughes. You know where Chaput is? |
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Interviewer: Does he speak Italian? Speaker: A little wee bit. Not um- mostly understanding than speaking. |
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