a-seen, have

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/3530

a-seen W. .and the head would be made just like a cow's head, see, and perhaps a cowskin coverin' or something over un, and that stick'll be put into un, what you call in the neck -bone, (yes?) He'll be put into un, the feller outdoors would.would carry it on his back till he'd go to.to enter the house, and he'd take un off then and go in th'house then sneckin' of 'em! Oh! The women.it frightened some of 'em, and the youngsters and (after?) that, everything all over (of alarm??).Take 'em hold, see, wi' his mouth and sna(p).snap 'em together. Oh, they'd screech terrific! They frighten some of 'em nearly.some of 'em they certainly, they'd be put in the room, just little small youngsters, put in clear where they couldn't see you. ((??JW. Would the women be afraid of the Hobby Horse? ??)) W. Some would and some wouldn't. Ones that had.you know, had a-seen un times before, they wouldn't be scared of un. A scattered.scattered young one, perhaps that come into a home, a young woman, never seen ne'er a one, she'd get scared, over un a bit; a lot. get scared a lot more than she would now if she was going to get in bed alongside of a man! ((JW.Were they covered with a sheet or something like that? ??)) W. Oh yes, had a sheet. JW. They had a sheet over themselves. W. They have a sheet. They'd have.the Hobby Horse [PT] covered with a piece o' skin and then they'd have a sheet right over un, see, and that sheet would come right on down over the man's back, all white. . J.WIDDOSON Not used Not used Not used Checked by Cathy Wiseman Thu 19 Jun 2014