_handier_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/35922

handy Mummer dressed in sheepskin firghtens people. .Why I refer now to a sheep's tail,I made one [ie a mask using a sheeps's tail for a whisker ] myself one time. .(it) looked fierce! I.I couldn't wear it! I frightened the women! .And I went up through.I went .went up to my friend - he died when he was young - well we were.had the match made up to go Mumming [PT] (Now) I was.going to I was goin' to go up there and when we was go(in'). 'CORDIN' AS WE used to go down round we'd pick up our crowd,you know. So I was.I was two days makin' a false face! I HAD (?) TO COME DOWN TO THAT. I .I had the.the real whisker,you know,and I had it made out of a.'cause I didn't have the sheep's tail,but I had the.the.the.a sheepskin with.with.with .not too much o' the wool taken off it. And I went up and went into Mr. Horwood's (?) up there (in) that white house there - you turns down round.when you domes down here. He used to live there - there's the man used to carry on business - and I went in. I knocked to the door (s),and I went in. And his wife,she loved to see Mummers [PT] comin' in, but when I went in she said, "Don't come no handier to me! "she says,that's their word,you know. "Don't come no handier to me," she says. "I'm afraid o' you! I.I (ie she?) says, I'm afraid o' you!" Now I thought to myself, "Well, what do I look like!" Well anyway I.I .I dared her. I went. But she got a.got a stick, a split now! She says, "If you comes.if you comes, " she said, "any handier to me," she says, "you'll catch it!" . And ehr husband, oh he was gettin' (a) great kick out of it. So by and by Mr. Dyke, the man (that) brought me up,his brother was in there when I went there, and he knew me. Why,because he missed me for two days.( and he had an idea what I was doin'. Told me the next day he knew I was up to something. He missed me: not out around for two days! Well I went up to my.my friend's (PLACE) . chum's,and I went in, and he was there; he come out doors. "Come in!" I went in,and I'm darned if his mother didn't get afraid o' me ...