A little or young thing
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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Ah, some- my sister more- my other sister more or less had that. She was older- a wee bit older than me. |
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Sometimes they'd, like- they'd take it off wee bit soon and finish off in the house. |
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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. |
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Wee bit more entertaining when somebody made a- made a few b-- boo-boos. |
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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. |
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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? |
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Speaker: And "wee tote" was a little child, eh. That's what I have on my license plate. My dad called us all "wee totes". (laughs) Interviewer: "wee totes", now that's a new one to me. Speaker: I-guess it's "wee tot", but I don't know. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: He called it "wee tote". "Come here, wee tote!" he'd say, and we'd get up on his knee, eh? Yeah. (laughs) Interviewer: And that's on your license plate. Speaker: That what I-- yeah, the kids give me that for- we all have one, the f-- four of us sisters. I'm Wee Tote Two, and Wee Tote One, and-so-on. |
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I wasn't very old, in nineteen-thirty-four. Just a wee kid. |
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Well, he knew damn well that I'd cut my hand half off if I tried that. So- yeah I don't have many yards in Middleville we did. And we went all over the place cutting little wee places… |
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And they'd have a little wee garden and- and everything else grew up in hay. So my dad would go in there and cut the hay. And usually, you couldn't even use a team anymore. You'd have to cut it (inc). And I have been on the end of a (inc) lots of times cutting hay. |
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You coil it. You coil it into little- into little- into little wee mounds and let it dry. Like it has to dry- it has to dry first. |
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