| Summary: | gig Many years ago two men named Jim and Paddy Power were lost in a snowstorm on the road between St. John's and Bay Bulls. They were walking from St. John's to their home in Tors Cove. Their bodies were later found, and a cross was erected by the side of the road to mark the place. This was the usual practice. My father tells an interesting story about this cross: Two brothers, Paddy and Mike Carey were going to St. John's in Kennedy's gig ( carriage ). Paddy was driving having just taken the reins from Mike. Mike was filling his pipe when the horse began to get nervous and "get up her ears". They were just coming to Powers Cross on the right hand side of the road. Paddy hit the horse, Ruby, with the reins and said, "Go on that's only Jim and Pad". [reverse] Mike Carey who told the story to my father said that he heard his brother say this, and he "knew nothing else until Paddy's boot hit him behind the ear". Both men were down in the drain at the foot of the cross, and the horse and gig were turned over on the road. As Mike Carey used to tell it "the horse was turned belly up on the road". My father often tells this story and he heard it many times from Mike Carey. The Carey brothers who belonged to Mobile are now dead. The cross is still there by the side of the road about two or three miles from Bay Bulls. I have seen it many times myself. One night my brother was driving over the road and had to stop for something. When he saw he had stopped by the cross he got back in his car and went on. He says, "I wasn't long getting out of there". I always feel a bit nervous when passing there at night and I wouldn't stop there for anything. carriage ( over ) Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Withdrawn NEWFOUNDLAND FOLKLORE SURVEY Head and form used, but not in this sense. See G_16078_gig for reverse
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