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• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1977
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/45582

spring2 n A joke, a joke is ah ah. A joke that you tell with, ah, funny expression into it to make you laugh. But a fable is something that happened years ago. (So a fable is true?) A fable is some- times true, and sometimes false, you know. Now, you'd take a fable, you take, you take me to tell my, my grandchild, say, Charlie's boy, six year old. I go and tell him, ah, a fable about (the) day, the first _spring_ on out to the ice fields, you know. And I'd tell him this where I went out to the ice fields and we killed seals. And he knows nothing about seals, you know. To him, this is a fable. PRINTED ITEM W. Kirwin, 9/77 JH 9/77 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used ~of the year/flask/hook/stick/heeled Jack 'a highwayman'/herring/salmon/o' the year/snare/legs/man/heel(ed) Jackson/avens/baiting/fish/fishery/herring/hunt/run/snowshoe/trip/var/vessel/weakness/winter, PATRICK, SHEILA, SNOTTY VAR, VAR, RUN, FALL HERRING, additional linked terms: SUMMER FISH(ERY), BAITING, SUMMER, (FISHING) SEASON, lose one's~,~business, ~bloom.