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main n Copyen This was a sort of pastime in the spring when the harbour ice was beginning to break up. We would go on the ice jumping from one pan of ice to the other. There would be the main pan which you started out from, we called it, the home pan. This sheet of ice could float a person or more,...
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| Summary: | main n Copyen This was a sort of pastime in the spring when the harbour ice was beginning to break up. We would go on the ice jumping from one pan of ice to the other. There would be the main pan which you started out from, we called it, the home pan. This sheet of ice could float a person or more, but the pans you jumped from one to another could not float you. In order to go copyen one had to be prepared to be on the move all the time because of the fact that the small pieces could not float you. It was a very danger/ous business . . . If you were jumping from one big pan of ice to a nother it was not considered copyen but just walking on the ice,it was/only/copyen where there was danger. JH 10/71 Not used Not used Not used |
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