A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons.
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Speaker: But I come home in the horse and the cutter up Bennett's-Lake. Into the- onto the eleventh-line not far from home down below. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
Saturday night we'd come to Maberly with horse-and-cutter. Four or five of us in the cutter. Be there for eight-o'clock, skate 'til nine or half past and go down to the Orange-Hall and dance 'til midnight. Get in the cutter all w-- s-- sweaty and wet. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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Many a time our road wasn't ah open to- for a week even the mail driver with the horse-and-cutter were up on the embankment, that's where you were until they- took about a week to open the roads. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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Yeah, it was, ah- oh, I remember one time, it was after they had, ah, switched the schools around and, um, my older brother- it was in the wintertime and he got the horse and cutter out. We had a cutter and he had a horse and he took the cutter and my younger sister and we went to school in the horse and cutter. And it was just something for fun, it was just- yeah, it was- it was really neat. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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Speaker: Well I- I- I left Beaverton before- if you're looking for history, um, you want to interview very many people who went to church in a horse and cutter. Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: You don't know what a cutter is? Interviewer: No I don't know what a cutter is. Speaker: A cutter is ah, a winter conveyance, that ah, horse pulls. Got runners on it. Interviewer: Oh like a sleigh. Speaker: Yeah, like- like sleigh. O-- only it's got a- a seat for two people and ah, as I mentioned my- my mother ah in ah, church, you didn't miss church and ah, we would ah- we would often be snowed in- |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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Interviewer: He'd make house calls, would he? Speaker: Yeah. Horse and cutter in the wintertime. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Yeah, yeah. Interviewer: Isn't that- Speaker: You'd meet him out at the road because our road- we were back far met off the other road and you'd have to- you'd met there with the sleighs or-something, bring him in and take him back out and then way he go. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: Of course if you had the horse cutter it was okay but sometimes it's- Interviewer: Yes. Yeah. Speaker: We he had the car in later years. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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Interviewer: So people would come to his house to pick up the mail? Speaker: He delivered it with the horse and cutter, or the horse and buggy. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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Because that was of course a way to bring fishing to town so he would take a horse and a cutter out to the- out to the fish rounds and bring the fish back into town by the groceries, take them back out of the fisherman because at times the fisherman would- would stay out on Lake-Simcoe for a month. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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Speaker: Many- many weeks in the wintertime a car never was on the road at all. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: S-- s-- sleighs and cutters. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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And later on in the depression, when I was old enough to be aware and remember these things he hired two men for a dollar a day and they would back to our place with a horse and cutter and in the wintertime, and um they worked down in the bush cutting cedar posts with a swede-saw. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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Mm-hm but I mean again, we used to have work horses, we used to have the old cutters where we'd harness them up and sleigh ride in the winter with them. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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And most of the time he was so tired that he'd fall asleep in about two minutes, and he said he would just get in the- the cutter and he'd fall asleep and wake up just outside the door, the horse'd take him right home. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |