Well, we got loads of logs from as far away as Millbridge down here. Because I would saw anytime (…) anytime of the year, and they’d bring it in right in the middle of summer. The old water wheels were old-fashioned but I got along with them for four or five years, and in nineteen-twenty-seven I put in a new type of water wheels. They gave dandy power and were easy on water.

And then I had a- a line stretched across uh to represent the- the different uh um tracks th-- through the snow and the sleigh would go on and then I said, I went to all my grade eight classes and I said "I want somebody that can draw me a life-size horse" and uh Don-Smythe at that time said "I think I can do one that would be acceptable." I said "you're the man". So he drew the horse and he did, it was a dandy horse.

Interviewer: Uh-huh. How did they take out the stumps? Speaker: Eh? Interviewer: How did- Speaker: Chopped them out of the stone with a- an axe. And this old grubhoe. Grubhoe, they called it. You couldn't break it, you-know. Interviewer: Mm-hm. And then what? Then how do you get them off the field? Speaker: Pile them up in a pile and p-- burn them. Dandy good l-- land, you know. An acre of land back then was fit for fifty acres now.

Interviewer: And what did they call that? Speaker: Eh? That was what they used for a stoneboat, or drawing water, or anything they were moving. Interviewer: They didn't call that a snowboat? Like, for on the snow, like a stoneboat on the snow? Speaker: It'd go all dandy on the snow, but um, you're thinking to the- what we call the flat-bottomed stoneboat.

Speaker: But there were, um, there were dandy blacksmiths. It was lovely to see the ironwork, and they made it all like flowers, I think, all for to make it strong. Not heavy iron, quite light, or they'd want nothing with it, but made in the loveliest (inc), and go to do it first, do-you-see? And all said it was lovely to look at.

Speaker: Some of the neighbours told me, "Don't you let him fool you." Nice old man (laughs) but he says, "There's places down there in that place where a lot of these old fellows go, and they like a little drink," do-you-see? And sometime now they're getting old like this, they just like a little too much and a little nice place to stay. A dandy place to go, and you're well used and as long as you don't get a little much of that, well then you sleep, and then they can rob you there if they like or they can use you well as they like- do as they like. Do-you-see, if you're a stranger you've no place to go, do-you-see.

Speaker: See, they all (inc) out in the bush. They would all watch your left and there must have been four, um- four, ah, robins came there the other evening. The little ones must have just been breaking the shell or, ah- or was out of the shell when that flustery cold rain come. Interviewer: What- what kind of rain? Speaker: Like kind of a fusty rolled in, it wasn't heavy, but it was always coming right in, and I'll show you, when you're going away, she has it right in the top, but I cut the top off the little pine tree out there. And she has a dandy place to build her nest, on the floor in the embers (sp). And she built her nest there.

And I says, "If you can get a- another horse, and a pair of sleighs, and, ah, you have three horses," and, ah, there was one- the oldest one, they called, ah, Bill. A big grey horse. A dandy good horse, you-know, he'd do- he'd do anything for you.

And an old horse would look after that business. And this was just a colt, you-know, it didn't know- (laughs) he has to know where they're going and what they're doing, and- and a dandy good beast too.

Interviewer: Yeah. Have you never seen those? Speaker: Yeah, I see them flying over here, all the- once they's up here and then to the lake. That's a dandy place for it, near- back in there.

Interviewer: Yeah. But did you- did you only live here in, ah, Carleton-Place? Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: Did you never live anywhere else in, ah- Speaker: I moved darn far, for to start to cart up there, I knew there was a dandy place. There was nobody up there.

Well, he says, "I'm supposed to be down at the boat at two-o'-clock." And, ah, she did, she had them boiled beans and bean soup, and good bean soup, too. And a dandy good dinner.

So, um, I went away up here into Beckwith one cold night, poor old woman were dead up there. And, ah, she was upstairs, I went up. He was a dandy hand to dress a woman, or a man or anything.

Interviewer: What did you- what did you used to make from the cherries? Speaker: Well, preserve them, you-know and- Interviewer: Yeah? Ever make ah, for toast? Speaker: Oh yes. Interviewer: One of ah- Speaker: Oh yes. And I was just telling 'em yesterday. We were eating the Bockmans you-know. And I said "By-the-by, if we'd had them here," Oh and big fellows, dandy. We'd half a dozen trees of them, we couldn't look at using them.

Speaker: Ah we had one for ah years here. Had ah horses drank out of it and the cows drank out of it. Cooled the milk in it. Interviewer: How long did it take- Speaker: Three big- oh it- th-- they stood a good while. The ash was ah- get a good big ash. They make a- dandy.

So we went over to that (inc) an awful nice big hotel at ah, Erin, you-know, just a big new one. Dandy. So we went over there and ah, I see what they want you to stay in there.

Speaker: Could I get off of school- like, from having to go to school 'til you're sixteen, see? And they- Board-of-Education sent her a nice letter back, "Certainly, if he's gainfully employed and learning a trade, that's fine and dandy with us," you-know, so- so I never got any high-school or nothing, just grade- eight and that, but anyways I- Speaker 2: It hasn't held you back at all.

... she says, "Oh that looks secure," and everything like that, you-know. So anyways, that was fine and dandy.

There's a Second- Cup place there. Okay. That's fine and dandy with me, as- I guess- I- it looks the Chinese people run it. I got nothing against the Chinese people eh? So, they have an area there that's- they've got tables and chairs and everything like that, and Lorraine goes into Zeller's there ...

Interviewer: They got filled up eh? Speaker: Yeah they really did. Because every lesson is t-- pertaining to the Bible it's all fine-and-dandy, I believe in it, but not that much.