| Summary: | lanch v An'.aboard o' the boat sometimes we'd have to launch,more times we'd have to slophaul* - that meant that we had slophaulers* - we had, that was now pieces of pork barrel stave sawed off an' a hole put through it,an' a handle into it and you take this an'.You get back in the stern o' the boat, one on each side,an' you reach out there and _ and those pork barrel staves would go through the ice; (she) kep' you hove (?) on the ice an'you would pull the boat. When _ when 'twas not strong enough to launch over it, and_an' 'twouldn't bear the boat, the ice would be strong enough to haul the boat through. DNE-cit DNE-cit (* = my spelling) J. D. A. WIDDOWSON JUL 1973 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I launch, lubbock, drum v 2 Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Wed 08 Jul 2015
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