Interviewer: What about when you, ah, ah, the- the- put them near the- near the barn or something? Is it- did you put them in a bigger- bigger pile there, or? Speaker: Piled it all in a mow. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: Half the size of the barn. You-know, tramp it in. Interviewer: Which? Speaker: You'd tramp it in with your feet. Get much in. But, ah, you don't throw it in with the fork, no, they'd take it in with the hay fork.

... well the horses pretty well went themselves, you just uh, put the reins onto the uh, um, wagon someplace and uh, mother would- would drive, plus when my father would put the hay onto the wagon, mother would tramp it down to see that she could- and place it-

... Dad neighboured with quite a few other farmers around, and he didn't want to be scarce of help. That one man would have not a lot to do. So he had about eighteen men, and um, there was men on the straw, to tramp it and build it in the barn, or on a stack, if it was going to be stored- if there was too much and wouldn't fit in the barn, and then there was somebody to cut the bands on the sheaves, band cutters ...

... my uncle by marriage was in- ah, building the straw around, even- and he looked- and he thought that it was the dust was in his eye, and 'twas a ball of ah, fire, right in the straw, in the barn, and he just ran and jumped right on it and tramped it out.

Interviewer: Like you have to book a campsite now if you wanna stay in August. Speaker: Isn't that on the Pacific-Rim? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: That I was surprised about but I thought that was an eco-thing 'cause they don't want people tramping. Interviewer: That's right they're green campsites and they're really good about it. Speaker: Which is good because in Ontario we have a bad habit of trampling things to death and over-camping and things change there too. You can't get a camping site anymore so.

Speaker: Well, I have changed that ah, quite a bit, 'cause I got knocked down a few times with the neighbours and-that and now I've been very cautious and I don't argue with nobody and I don't be tramped on, you-know-what-I-mean? Like, ah, used- I have been used big-time in my life. Interviewer: Oh really. Speaker: Oh yes, and that's why I'm very cautious about what I do and what I say, yes.

... is built on a- on a mining claim ah, as parcel- a parcel of a mining claim and I happen to look on the- at the book ah, the three miles of gold and ah, it was staked, the- the land was staked. January the eighth, nineteen-twelve. So somebody tramped through this- this part of the- the- the town before it was ever a town ah, ah, almost a hundred years ago or a hun-- so-

Speaker: We pay six-hand euchre lot of times. Interviewer 1: Ooo, how do you play six-hand? Speaker 2: Just add seven more cards in. Speaker: Sevens and eights in and ah two jokers. Interviewer 1: Well that sounds like it would be fun. Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah you can get tramped on in a hurry (laughs). Eh? Interviewer 2: Yeah. Speaker 2: Except Pat gets the jokers all the time.

Speaker: They helped with the meals, helped with the dishes and you'd go out to get a load of hay, and the boys would throw it on with their forks and you would be supposed to build a load, tramp it down, drive the horses back into the barn again, and- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Like that, with the botcher-ale was considered fun.

Speaker: Um, like there's enough of us, uh, in the neighbourhood. We- there was a- a swamp area. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Ah, we'd go in in the fall and, um, tramp down the um- put on, ah, high rubber boots and go down- tramp down all the um- the um cat tails and so on- Interviewer: Oh, okay. Speaker: -so that we have um, a good skating area for the winter.

Speaker: 'Cause before when you were raking the hay, well you'd rake the hay then you'd get the horses and big wagon, and lift it up on the wagon that hay, then somebody had to be on top and tramp it down, and just put some more on it, you tramped more and more, so you get more on, eh? Interviewer: Really? Whose job was that? Speaker: Well sometimes it was my job, to go on the wagon, eh? Interviewer: Yeah, and tramp down the hay.

Interviewer: Did anybody ever fall off the wagon? Speaker: I don't think so. Not that I know of. Interviewer: No? Speaker: Then when you'd go into the barn, then you'd have to take it off and tramp it in the barn, put it in the barn and tramp it down so you could get more hay too, eh? And what- now after we got the bailer, then we started bailing the hay, so that was a lot easier.

Speaker: Yeah (laughs). And ah she d-- she really loves it there so, yeah. They- they like- they like to be out and hiking and tramping and camping, and fishing and- Interviewer: Mm-hm.

Actually yesterday I was d-- or they day before I was doing something, there was this big spider in the garden, I was afraid I would tramp on him, you-know or do- because he was right there I was surprised h-- I just pick him up with my gloved hand and threw him so he's away from me, so I won't tramp on him. You-know h-- I mean he'd eat all kinds of eggs of bad things, so let him be.

... the summer little tiny things, and you're working, and the- you dig them up because they're in the soil, you-know they're sleeping, and I just take it and I move it because you can't see it, it's brown, you can't see it and you tramp on it. I know once I tramped on one- I thought I was going to die too. Interviewer: Why would- why did you think you were going to die? Speaker: Well, I-mean, I felt so badly.

Interviewer: Did you ever see anybody get hurt with a rake? Speaker: No. Interviewer: No? Everybody was careful, I bet. Speaker: Yup. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And then I got- before- before I was old enough to use that, when I was younger, I had to go out and tramp the hay down, because- got a bigger load. Interviewer: Yeah? Just with your feet? Speaker: Yeah, I'd just run around. Jumping. Interviewer: Yeah, that's fun. Oh, well, except if there were snakes in there.