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The depression hit us and knocked us pretty near out of commission at one time. |
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So you see on seven or eight hundred or a thousand boxes. Then the corrugated boxes didn’t take up near as much room in the car as the wooden boxes. They pretty near switched entirely to corrugated boxes for shipping because if you had, a car would hold about a thousand cases of these fillers in the corrugated boxes where as it would only hold eight hundred, seven or eight hundred wood cases. |
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But I supposed they're all gone, all pretty near gone, you know. |
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I said I suppose that we're all gone, all pretty near gone, you-know. |
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Many many items and a good big table, pretty near twice as big as that. |
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The cows used to be let out pretty near every day to be watered to. |
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And it was pretty near as big as this room. |
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We knew that sooner or later compulsory pasteurization was coming in and out business got in the stage that it was pretty near impossible to carry on any longer out there from the farm, because it was...we was handling too much milk; we didn't have the facilities for handling it right and it was too much slavish work. |
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There again it made me pretty near cry. |
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Well, I lived on the farm practically all my life I guess, pretty near. |
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They'd- they'd pretty near all try to be ready for the thrashing machine at once and then they'd come in and they'd stay all night at the farmers and Saturday night whoever owned the machine would go and do his own farm for over Sunday. |
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At one time there were ninety pretty near. |
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Oh well uh- yeah it was pretty near as good as they have today. |
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Well it was pretty near as good as they have today. |
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You used to be in mud up to your knees pretty near in the spring. |
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Pretty near all these old men were fond of buttermilk. |
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But it's pretty near all in pieces now. Kids went in and just smashed it. |
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No, no. Oh no, they'd- you'd ah- you'd go to Carleton-Place, you'd get damn pretty near anything in Carleton-Place do-you-see, if you wanted. |
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And the- it was a general-store, you-know they kept pretty near everything. Y-- you get pretty near anything you wanted there. |
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He's a spiteful bugger. You do anything on him you pretty near have to kill him or he can do something on you. |
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