And I can remember in the spring of the year, went to the barn, there was a sheep with a pair of lambs, eh? She opened the little door to go in to pet the wee lambs in the individual pen, big as- 'bout as big as this table. The pen with the sheep with a pair of lambs (inc). She went in there to go in and to pet the wee lambs, I had to hold the wee lamb, the sheep hit me right there, sent me ass over to (inc) (laughs). Meanwhile you were told not to go in (laughs).

Scratch marks all over him, he didn't figure what on earth it was. Went back a wee while later, the pig's dead. Yeah, and it was alive this morning, he's dead middle- sometime later on that afternoon, he's dead.

So I grab the scraper blade, it was the wintertime, grabbed the scraper blade, eh, reached underneath the car to scare out whatever was underneath it, out come this fisher from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail was thirty nine inches long. He just run a wee piece like that, turn around and looked at you.

But they were just small, m-- you- you might get two loads of hay under the wee loft on them and that's about it.

Speaker: You mention boiling it. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Darkens it a wee bit. Speaker: Yeah. Speaker: That's just if you burn it (laughs).

Well, you-see, I was a wee bit lazy sometimes, so the s-- she sent- the teacher sent me home to- to do some w-- book work like, you-know and of course there was only paper work I should say. So I didn't do it and I said, "Well I lost it and it rained on it."

And there was one poor lady, she- they were on assistance and when she'd get her check she'd come in and she always bought herself a couple of wee knick-knacks. L-- they might have only been, like, a dollar, two dollars but that stuff really sold.

We, ah, sneaked in what we call Little-White-Lake, I-don't-know, it was a puddle and we made a wee raft. We'd save our lunches. Coming home from school, I'll go in there and think we were on White-Lake, I-guess.

And I remember getting- sneaking a wee piece of wire from home and we just gathered up-

Speaker 2: Oh I said ice-cream cones, we used to get ice-cream cones, little ones, just sometimes, they weren't the regular ones. Five cents- Speaker 1: Miss- Miss-Barbershop used to sell them, real wee ones for a cent a piece

Anyway um so went back to this little inn down the road and ah it was out in the middle of no place. And you had to duck to go through the door. It was that old of a building you-know, a little wee short ah. And ah I actually had to stop there before we went up to the farm to see if they would ah- how late they were open.

Speaker: Just to- well, I guess when I was- before I was born or a little wee lad, it was a- a dug- I guess you call it a dug well down below the house. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: It was probably six, seven feet deep.

Romance flourished so they married, moved to Ottawa, Saint-Matthew's, and indeed that big Glebe church also christened their wee Rich. When Gary joined the army, sister Nika sent a letter," you asked me the question brought up...

Ah, I don't know. I would've guess it was okay because they- they made- just made butter out of it, you-know, so they need a wee bit sour.

Ah, some- my sister more- my other sister more or less had that. She was older- a wee bit older than me.

Sometimes they'd, like- they'd take it off wee bit soon and finish off in the house.

This was the family- but, ah, they had a homest-- ah, one over there down a wee bit. There's used to be a lilac tree then, ah, where that big spruce is that's- that- behind it.

Wee bit more entertaining when somebody made a- made a few b-- boo-boos.

And you wouldn't park it- a lawnmower in there hardly if you went down and seen what the car used to sit on, just little wee logs.

My father used to say, what- what was the sixth-grade- he- he had very little formal education but he did take Latin in public school here in Canada. He ah, he would say, "poor wee goosey" that's what he called me, "poor wee goosey," do you not see through that?