_handier_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/33778

handy groaning in the cemetery. H. But a lot o' people hears things and sees things and.they don't know. They just goes on and don't.and don't make no more.a lot of it,see,and lots more makes a lot of it. I was walking here the road another night and heard a bloody big racket down through the woods,groanin' and groanin',right up in the cem.right longside the cemetary. Boy I just stopped.(BROUGHT RIGHT STIFF THERE STANDIN') cause I heard this, and I don't know: what was it? 'Twas something was right in on the back o' cemetery,right up there where Reg Burke (?) lives now, that house 'longside,,,the little whiate house, longside the cemetery (JUST) above the Pentecost church there.Well boy.I thought to myself, "Well I got to see what that is! Or (THIS??) mus (t).I (sup)pose there's someone in the cemetery,I got to see what that is!" And now.there was no road there then - there's just a trail cut up,and I went on down (AND) walked down through the woods,and handier I got I found. What do you allow that was? FE. An old billy goat, I guess. H. What? FE. A billy goat. H. No, it wasn't a billy goat,sir! 'twas a darn bighorse with the cholic!' FE. Yeah. H. Down there.down in the woods,back o' (THE) cemetery. I seen 'twas a horse,and that's the horse was down groanin', you know. I went on, (AND) leaved un then. I never troubled but HE. next morning,or.next day SOME OF THEM HAD seen somethin' round. I knowed the man (who) owned th'horse and everything. J. WIDDOSON DNE-cit [check] [check] Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I This card is given a title: 'groaning in the cemetary.' It is a transcribed interview and additions were made in writing after card was typed. The capitals in the citation indicate handwritten parts.