Hauling Frolic
hauling vbln Frolic - A Frolic is an occassion for work and celebration. Usually about 6 to 10 men go into the woods for a day cutting wood. This would be called a "Cutting Frolic". Later on the wood is hauled out with horses and is given to one particular man in the group. This would be c...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/35002 2023-12-31T10:19:32+01:00 Hauling Frolic image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/35002 eng eng H H.R. Tilley, 63-1/396 Trout River, St. Barbe Dist. References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13856 H_13856_haul n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/35002 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:36Z hauling vbln Frolic - A Frolic is an occassion for work and celebration. Usually about 6 to 10 men go into the woods for a day cutting wood. This would be called a "Cutting Frolic". Later on the wood is hauled out with horses and is given to one particular man in the group. This would be called the "Hauling Frolic". Each of these Folics is followed up at night by a "get together" at the house of the man who recieved the wood. He would have a barrel of home brew p repared in advance for this occasion. The night's activities would consist of card-playing, story-telling, dancing, playing the accordion, and general merry-making. This would be repeated for each member of the group until all have their supply of wood.[If] some man in the community is sick and unable to go into the woods, the same procedure would go ahead without him, except that he would have to provide the home brew for the party at night. DNE-cit JH 6/71 Used I and Sup Used I 2 Used I Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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hauling vbln Frolic - A Frolic is an occassion for work and celebration. Usually about 6 to 10 men go into the woods for a day cutting wood. This would be called a "Cutting Frolic". Later on the wood is hauled out with horses and is given to one particular man in the group. This would be called the "Hauling Frolic". Each of these Folics is followed up at night by a "get together" at the house of the man who recieved the wood. He would have a barrel of home brew p repared in advance for this occasion. The night's activities would consist of card-playing, story-telling, dancing, playing the accordion, and general merry-making. This would be repeated for each member of the group until all have their supply of wood.[If] some man in the community is sick and unable to go into the woods, the same procedure would go ahead without him, except that he would have to provide the home brew for the party at night. DNE-cit JH 6/71 Used I and Sup Used I 2 Used I |
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H H.R. Tilley, 63-1/396 Trout River, St. Barbe Dist. References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13856 H_13856_haul n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/35002 |
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