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• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/3105

allow was something else buried here and.I suppose old fellers, you know, he's about the oldest, or Uncle Sam Felley, we used to call un. He was a nervous, you know, as a.as the dickens and boy, there's always something there! And there's something here! And "We've heard this here!" and, "We've heard.!" and I guess a damn good bit imagination, sir! See? And."No!" I said. "I'm not goin!" [INC] said, "Come on! Let's go on, 'fore it gets too dark!" "No," I said. "I'm not goin'! I'm not goin' up out o' this tonight till I finds out what that is!" And I looked and looked and looked, and it got dark, and got pitch dark, and I could still hear it! And I went an' I went and went and went and went and I dodged here an' I dodged there, and I'd look around, and I (?) and I did. sometimes I'd get a little handier to it, and more times I'd get away from itx and. By and by, "Bang!" Be right there and you think you could graff (Ie grasp ) at it right in the house and twas hotter in the house! Sound, you know, funny. And the wife she's just about stiff now! Jees All st.ju(st).well, fit to be tied on! A little more [INC] that, got a big.big piece o' chain, chain her on! And.sure she had the youngesters made as bad as her herself! Anyway, and I said, 'By God, I'm goin' to find out what it is now! I'm goin' again! " 'Twas dark now; dark as the pitch! I gets out around, I starts (to) shock (??) around. And by and by I walked right up, sir, past, the.a foot of it, and when a (ie it) went, "Bang!" alongside o' my feet! "My God," I said, "I got ya!" What d'you allow that was? And sir, you go up and ask she now, you'll say it's the queerest sound ever you heard over there, Overnight ! Yeah. I meant to say, you know ratle you up, 'cause there's somebody in the lumber, see? Right in under your feet! What d'you allow that was? .You'd never guess sir! No. That was a.that was a bloomin.one o' them old ten-pound bakin' powder cans, and he down ahole on ice! And the wind USED to take un an' blow un up 'en (= against) a rock or two, and blow ...