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• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Bird Island; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/31038

go v "It wint down dru me like a dose o' shot" Does this indicate the survival to our day of the use, or of the memory of the use, of actually eating gunshot as a medicine (purgative?). When my great-grandfather, Richard Cole (first), 1796-1856, was about 45-50, a married fisherman-planter in one of the larger houses in Bird Island Cove (now Elliston), he was awakened by someone knocking on the outside door after he had gone to bed. Coming downstairs & confronted by a man named _Chaulk_, from "The Big Hill", who asked him (R.Cole) "ver a dose o' shot, t'kip me lights down - dey'm cum'n up . . . " lights being an old standard word in use in my day [reverse] "It wint down dru me like a dose o' shot" (cont'd.) at Elliston for _lungs_ - - - e.g. when a cow was butchered, her "livers 'n lights" were carefully cut out as delicacies. Gr'fr Cole administered the dose of shot to Chaulk, I gather. JH-1-12-69 DNE-cit (over) Used I and Sup Not used Withdrawn Head used, but not in this sense. Reverse of card at G_16223