box ball

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/11810

box n In the examples given the one used by my parents on me and my brother was the _Boogie-man_. Usually these threats were used _to get us off the streets at night.* -that time of day when man cannot see his foe. Even though I never believed these threats I usually had fear after the threat was made. Thus to me the threats were serious, but I believe that to my parents they were playful. Children are usually frightened when threatened, not as much of the outcome of the threat, but rather of the loss of confidence of the parents in them. When a child is young things are supposed to revolve aroudn him, he has his own little world with his parents acting as small moons revolving around him, shedding their light and wishfulnes on him. When he is thretened he feels alone, and a human being (no matter what age) fells fear when he is really alone. As the child grows into maturity he learns to take the whole world into scope. There was an _old woman_ who lived not far away from us. She was egotistic, and she constantly lived in an eight-room house by hersel She was our fear. She would have _police_ come if we were in the garde next to her's, playing box-ball on the street or even crossing the side in [end of card 1] * [insert] The _boogie-man_ was supposed to exist in the _darkness_ of the _night_ DNE-cit J.D.A. WIDDOWSON Used I Not used Withdrawn Card marked DNE-cit, but not used; Withdrawn but no stamp