Golewitty

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/31659

gold-withy People frightened to pass cemetery at night. (Quinton's Cove) (Part of story of when Mr Burton has to fetch the midwife one night and has to pass the cemetery between Quinton's Cove and Beaumont North) B. . went up this road and I. I passed _the cemetery_; you know, [inc] lot o' people were scared of this _cemetery_ up here! I.P. Yeah, that's for sure! B. Yes, sir! There's people lots o' times.There's Gord. Burton in this row.Burton, they won't pass the cemetery! I've went up with they across [inc] MORE THAN one night, when they was over here [inc] gets. dark, AND THEY WAS CAUGHT HERE. I went past _the cemetery_ (AND) I went on down. And you know where the golewitty.well, just before we takes the football ground. right at the lower end of _the cemetery_. where the the road was. was so good as almost cut off, with the golewitty and the mish-birch (??) and everything and. few trees WAS there. Well here was this light! Here was this light. there in the woods about. I don't know. three feet high I suppose. I stopped. (It) brought me up anyhow. 'Twas too near where I had to pass, you know, for me to. go along! But [inc] I wasn't afeared!But I stopped and thought to myself, "Well [inc] anyhow!" Well. there was a few fellers. people around here then had cows, but they'd no horses. Jonan Squire (??) had a cow up here and Uncle William Short had a cow or two, but that never come in my mind, ne'er one o' them animals. Well I [inc] to myself, "Old Man, whether you're there or no, I'm goin' to pass, unless that you'm a better man than I be that's goin' to knock me out!" And, you know, he. I reached back and I got a picket; there was a picket there. Uncle Don Rowsell had a garden there, see, and there was a ole picket there, you know, fell off, and I took this picket. You know, this was a cow! This was a cow GOAT down there, you know, [reverse] like. she'd lie down, you know, on her belly, she wasn't [inc] on her side, she was plumped right there on her belly, and she almost come up in my face. I wasn't no ...