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The customs he asked me, what's in your trunk," and I told him, he never even opened it. It was only certain ones he opened, yeah, certain ones, he must have thought I was honest. I says, "boots and pants and shirts." He didn't bother. then we got on the train you-know, it was one of them colonist cars we got on, colonist you-know.
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These, ah, prophecies, that, ah, God has told us in the Bible. And of course the people don't believe it now. They don't believe there's any hereafter nor nothing, after this. Once you die you're dead. I've been told that dozens of times. Well, I says, I can tell you something, tell them now, when you die you're not dead.
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And my s-- son-in-law was coming with me that day, to go to- to cut- to help to cut the wood. And, ah, I got an awful pain, somewhere in the centre in me back. We were sitting on- or standing on this thing, and, um, I says, "I wish you'd come here and take the lines."
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And it was getting late in the spring, and they wanted to get it out to the field, and the man was coming with the moveable saw, do-you-see, to cut it into lumber in the spring. And I says, "If you don't get at it and get it out, you'll not get it out and it will be spoiled next year if you leave it in the bush all winter." 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.
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And, ah, to come here, there's some disease coming out in the town. But, ah, they were going to vaccinate every child in town, in the- in the schools. Well I says, "Not if I can help it." I said to them, "Never vaccinate me nor my children, if I can stop it." Just like that.
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Well, she says, "They went to school and were sent home." "Did you not go to see?" he says, quite angry. "Why, you didn't go?" "Well," she says, "Why did I need to go? I says I sent them and they sent them home, and they can't go back 'til they let them go back." "Well did you not go see down there- Marvin, not go to see, ah, what's wrong?"
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So, well, I told Luke, "You should have asked! So you shouldn't do nothing- run with others- ah, people, 'til you see your father and mother to see what they have to say." And I says, "Do not pay no attention to what the other people says." So, I says, "I can't pity you at all," but I says, ah, "If the girls go, it's against their will, they can put up with what they got! They won't have my advice to it."
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... she says, "I've just done what the Lord told me not to do." And I says, "That's-" she says, "That's all I expect to get from anybody." And she says, "I'm- I was frightened into it, to take yous down there. I should have known better."
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Well, I said, "Go and ask him." So they did, and I says, "Do yous want to go down?" And they says "Yes." "Well, certainly I'll go with yous." I says, "I'll rebuke the devil," I says, "And I'll not be afraid to go, and see the, ah- see the- the doctor." So I got right ready and I walked right down with them. And, ah, went into the doctor's office and I told him, "You better see about these little girls not getting to school." I says, "You were supposed to vaccinate them. Frightened the wits out of the mother."
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... I rounded the corner just like that, quicker than anything could say it, and back to- and over the fence, into Doubter's-Bush. And I says, "You'll have a time if you catch me, tonight, today, if you run after me all day in the b-- bush, you'll not get me in there." I was terrified, you-know. But I stayed out 'til after night up around the barns.
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And, ah, the missus was crying. Luke was a little wee lad then. She was crying. I says, "What in the world is the trouble? Is this the life you want to have, crying so early in the morning?" Well, she says, "I'll tell you the truth. If I was back in Carleton-Place, then money wouldn't buy me to come up here." I says, "What's wrong?" I says, "Me other clothesline was gone." I guess I got maybe the third one for her. Stole at night. And I can't leave a thing out.
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Interviewer: What kind of light was it? Speaker: A little lantern, do-you-see, and the light was all out. I see him with the two hands getting back to the barrel, do-you-see, and I says, "I'll fix you, my lad."
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So the next day, I think it was, when I came in after feeding the horses, Betty was crying. (laughs) She'd lost her clothesline. A nice cotton one, do-you-see, that she would hang clothes on, cleaning them. "Well, you don't need to worry," I says, "Life's too short," I says, "That we have to sit and cry. And we all have something worthwhile to cry about." I says, "I see, myself, the only cure for it. If I can have my way," I says, "I'd get far enough away. If the rest of the people of Arnprior's like what our neighbours is."
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I went down and I told the man that I had the house rented from, I says, "I'm leaving." And I says, "I guess you know why." He laughed at me. He says, "I was afraid of this." He says, "Where are you moving to?" I says, "I'm going back to Carleton-Place." I says, "I wouldn't give Carleton-Place," I say, "For half a dozen Arnprior." I says, "I wonder at you keeping such people in the- in the- in a town."
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Interviewer: You said what? Speaker: I told him, I says, "I- I wonder at you keeping such people in this town." I wouldn't- couldn't say no name, do-you-see, nor catch him right- see him doing it, for I knew just maybe what you were getting into.
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Speaker: She could give them a pail of water, do-you-see. Interviewer: Wh-- where, in the- where were- Speaker: In- in the stable, do-you-see. And I gave them plenty of hay to do them 'til I come back at night. I ate my breakfast, I says, "Get the little lad ready." And I says, "I'm going to take him with me." Says, "Where are you going?" I say, "I'm going down to Carleton." I say, "I'm going down to see if I can get a house. So I'll not tell you why 'til I come back."
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Speaker: The man and woman, father and- and father-in-law, do-you-see? Or the mother-in-law and father-in-law. And weren't they all tickled about me bringing down the little lad with me. Well, I says, "I was going to leave him with Georgia tonight," and, ah, well then she says, "I'm going to take him home with me." Well I says, "Betty will be down in a day or so." I didn't tell them nothing else happened or-nothing.
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And over here, this old lad didn't come to help me to load up. Well I says, "I don't need hope- help very bad at all." I- I kept me- t-- (laughs) kept me temper. But I just felt like giving him a kick in the arse. Such a liar, and such a sweetie, thinking he was helping you. (clears throat)
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And they had lots of beer and lots of liquor. Um, and James had- and he had to go in with them. So one of the lads, ah, wanted me in, and I says, "No," I says, "I don't drink nor don't- nor do anything like this where I have anything on my mind, and to- to try to help things right." I says, "I wouldn't take no liquor with me, nor would I take a drink when I was on the job, and I never did." I says, "I want to know me business." (laughs)
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I went way up to where the fellow was driving the boat. Oh, a nice man. He was telling me, "Sir, you ever down here?" I says, "No." And I says, "I just thought I'd come up and see what it was like to see a man driving-"
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