Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place.
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A toboggan. We just had hand sleighs. Homemade sleigh you-know and- ... We'd go someplace there was a hill and we sliding down (laughs). Then they got the toboggans. |
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Interviewer: You'd never go to Ottawa for anything? Speaker: Well, a lot of serious cases were to the city. ... Some of them was going to the new one now, new hospital or someplace. |
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And my grandfather Arkwright, he was (coughs)- he was travelling some place in parish Dyke when this girl was out getting some water and he stopped to- to get a drink and to water his horse and that's where he met my grandmother. |
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Well they just go down with like the flies and what, I don't know. ... I think they just crawl in some place and- 'course a lot of them all die. |
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... they would have to take them to the end of a lake someplace where they could put them into a creek or a river- ... Where the water was moving. |
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And uh, years ago you never heard of that unless the cattle wandered under a tree someplace, they were struck with lightening. |
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Interviewer: What happened to the ashes? Speaker: Well, we would have a- a place, possibly behind a building someplace where they weren't seen where we disposed of the ashes. |
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... well the horses pretty well went themselves, you just uh, put the reins onto the uh, um, wagon someplace and uh, mother would- would drive, plus when my father would put the hay onto the wagon, mother would tramp it down to see that she could- and place it- |
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Oh yeah, it- well- some place where the other hens wouldn't crowd them off. You closed up- we closed the nest up, partly, so that the others hens couldn't get in. And then you'd have to, um, let them out once a day, to feed and eat, exercise. |
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Interviewer: Where would these birds nest? Speaker: The swallows under the eaves of the barn, the sparrows ah, well, any place they- around the buildings, someplace. But the swallows- we liked them, but the sparrows were not maybe always so clean. |
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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." |
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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. |
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Well then she died a few years ago here, his wife, ah and I forget where she was, she was in a nursing-home someplace. They had no family. They did have a child and it died. |
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Nothing. And now um there was piece on Aunt-Keira-Reese, she musta belonged up there someplace. But anyway she married a Morgan. |
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And the stagecoach took the tourists from here out to where Charleston, that's down on Lake-Joseph someplace. |
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Then they built a um a house, it'd be- it would be a shack really, it's just be something liveable, out on the other side of the Tallyho where you go out on to one-forty-one, out in there someplace. And ah they walked in from there to where Dex-Hayle lives now and cleared the land and built the house there. |
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Interviewer: ... that's such a lovely window; you must've planned this house exactly the way you wanted it. Speaker: Well, (laughs) ah Brendan was in the- ... he like done building for- for people and we were out at a cottage around McKeller someplace and they had a picture window and where you sat with this picture window- ... |
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Well, you- you work one place in the summertime and then, you had- it slackened off and you'd have to go whereever some place was busy. They wanted men there. They'd just give you a track for (inc) days. |
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I'll be working up some place or another you-know, and they- oh- "I worked with your two boys," you-know. (laughs) |
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Come in in the morning about eight o'clock, you-see. And come in about eight o'clock at night. I was home at night all the time, unless I was away some place. |
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