And the men, when they weren't working, they might be on the night shift and they would come in and sit on one of the counters, not where the food was, but on one of the other counters, hardware counter and you-know, yack away and-that. And so- (laughs) anyway, everybody smoked. And I'd get up on this, ah, to answer the phone on this little- so I could answer the phone right.

And ah this one guy I yacked with quite a bit and ah he's (inc) the odd thing to- to me after we moved and got our own place

She'd be a good one to yadder to.

Ah, run through to the neck-yoke.

Speaker: Well, ah, that'd have to be a- ah, pole, or tongue, between the horses. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Ah, run through to the neck-yoke. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: There's no- there's no pull between those lines. Interviewer: No. Speaker: No, well, you'd have to pull the neck-yoke, and the whippletrees would be attached to the- to the pole ahead of the front axle.

But Dad said there was oxen- they used oxen and they, used the big heavy yokes on the oxen. You ever see an oxen yoke? Well they had that, and ah they used the ploughs I think.

Speaker: And there was whiffletrees and there was neck yokes and- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: All-this-kind-of-stuff.

Just showing people what they were like. These yokes went across the top of the neck here and they loop around here.

That was for if you wanted to back up. That's what went on the neck yoke and you backed up.

Then- then- then they had a- they had a neck yoke and the neck yoke come up to there- about, I'd say three feet, two and a half three feet w-- uh, long and they had a ring in each end and they had what they call a full-stop that run from the- from the car around and out- out to the car on both horses and then sometimes they had what they call a ring.

And a neck-yoke goes across in front of the horse and attaches to the hames on the collar of each horse.

And you carried your water on a yoke. Two pales of water from- from the central place at Tech-Hughes when we were there.

You-know, I-mean the house that she lived in would have been very poorly insulated and I-mean, winters were very cold up here and she had to go and get water from- she had to haul water with a yoke at first and-

And this one here, I brought a yoke of oxen up from, ah, Nova-Scotia in nineteen-eighty-three and that's it there.

And, ah, those are just- that- I had those yoke oxen I sold to the Ontario government and-

... any of the other power tools like sanding tools, you-know, the vibrators or the belt sanders or, ah- the old days you done it with a block and a piece of sandpaper and by hand. Same with polishing it.

... no (inc) pension. There wasn't anything at all. It-- you had-- if you- you had to do whatever you could. Anyway, and you-know, and you- I always worked for anything and when you had the truck up there and anybody wanted something drawed, for a little extra money, you done it. It didn't matter about what time it was when you got home.

Speaker: ... it goes about five miles east of Mount-Albert. I don't know how big it would be- they- but I figured they- about fifteen or eighteen, twenty mile across, you-know. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Now, we done every road. And every road is a mile and a quarter, you-see, townships. You done it that way, and that way, and this way, and back. You went right around you-see, this mile and a quarter, that'd be ah five mile.

And a lot of times they won. Well yo-- ah- Mrs.-Thomson was an excellent teacher and so you had- she made sure that you done it right. But it pays off.

Well, there was young people's leagues, and- and ah- well we always had social evenings and get-togethers and um like suppers, (inc) team meetings and then the children in the Sunday-school had sleigh-drives and picnics and parties during the year, Halloween parties.