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shift v .But we got a good.me and the wife got a good imagination here.We shift (ie shifted) down here,we lived down here alone,see,not another soul in the place.We was down here. over a year by ourselves.And one evenin'.well a little later then this,(THE)two boys were down HERE ! Jack, the fel...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/45853 2023-12-31T10:19:36+01:00 _shift_ xxxx/xx/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/45853 eng eng S [Philip Hynes, C 315-66-25] 368 (Southern Head Harbour) Phillip Hynes, C 315-66-25 Frightening noise (explained) References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 16021 S_16021_shift v http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/45853 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:37Z shift v .But we got a good.me and the wife got a good imagination here.We shift (ie shifted) down here,we lived down here alone,see,not another soul in the place.We was down here. over a year by ourselves.And one evenin'.well a little later then this,(THE)two boys were down HERE ! Jack, the feller(that ) works there in City Motors near Grand Falls,and Lionel: he was a baby ,(JUST) small. A little later then this, I was out around , tearing around I'd go in and start,perhaps work (TILL) twelve o'clock, AND one o'clock (AT) night.The wind was in here from the north,blowin',and blowin' a nice breeze; late in the fall, up Novem- ber month.By and by we hear(d) somebody slingin' down boards.Sound like boards,sound lik wood.And. wife was in th'house; so I said, "Come out," I said ",and listen!Somebody out there round the pint," I said,"heavin' down wood!" Must be the boat coming -here today now,and blowed too hard to get on across the bay,you know,and land out here on the point cuttin' wood,see? Now by and by IT WOULD BE slap again! "(CLAUDE(??), I said, "That's not wood!" I said."That's somebody in the lumber!" So I had a.a barn I took down up ther was twenty two feet long and ten feet post : sixteen foot in the (?) and fouteen feet (WIDE). I had all took down ,towed in there, IN sheets,you know,in the bottom there. So I went over there in just about the grey o' the evening,darker than this,and had a look around;nothing started over there.Couldn't hear it when I was over there.Come back again: 'twas."Bang!" I'd go here .(AND) after a bit 'TED[INC] "Bang!" Jees, somebody poundin' lumber! Wife said,"Let's.let's get ready and go up out of it!" "No by jigge !" I said,"I'm not goin' up out o'this ! I got to know what this is first!" And by and by the big"Bang!" And now she was gettin' JUST ABOUT nervous now.Mind to take the two youngsters and go ON UP !"No sir!" I said. "You can go! You can go,but I'm not goin'! I got to know what this is!" No , somebody always heard .something down here,you know.pir. money buried around ... Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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shift v .But we got a good.me and the wife got a good imagination here.We shift (ie shifted) down here,we lived down here alone,see,not another soul in the place.We was down here. over a year by ourselves.And one evenin'.well a little later then this,(THE)two boys were down HERE ! Jack, the feller(that ) works there in City Motors near Grand Falls,and Lionel: he was a baby ,(JUST) small. A little later then this, I was out around , tearing around I'd go in and start,perhaps work (TILL) twelve o'clock, AND one o'clock (AT) night.The wind was in here from the north,blowin',and blowin' a nice breeze; late in the fall, up Novem- ber month.By and by we hear(d) somebody slingin' down boards.Sound like boards,sound lik wood.And. wife was in th'house; so I said, "Come out," I said ",and listen!Somebody out there round the pint," I said,"heavin' down wood!" Must be the boat coming -here today now,and blowed too hard to get on across the bay,you know,and land out here on the point cuttin' wood,see? Now by and by IT WOULD BE slap again! "(CLAUDE(??), I said, "That's not wood!" I said."That's somebody in the lumber!" So I had a.a barn I took down up ther was twenty two feet long and ten feet post : sixteen foot in the (?) and fouteen feet (WIDE). I had all took down ,towed in there, IN sheets,you know,in the bottom there. So I went over there in just about the grey o' the evening,darker than this,and had a look around;nothing started over there.Couldn't hear it when I was over there.Come back again: 'twas."Bang!" I'd go here .(AND) after a bit 'TED[INC] "Bang!" Jees, somebody poundin' lumber! Wife said,"Let's.let's get ready and go up out of it!" "No by jigge !" I said,"I'm not goin' up out o'this ! I got to know what this is first!" And by and by the big"Bang!" And now she was gettin' JUST ABOUT nervous now.Mind to take the two youngsters and go ON UP !"No sir!" I said. "You can go! You can go,but I'm not goin'! I got to know what this is!" No , somebody always heard .something down here,you know.pir. money buried around ... |
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S [Philip Hynes, C 315-66-25] 368 (Southern Head Harbour) Phillip Hynes, C 315-66-25 Frightening noise (explained) References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 16021 S_16021_shift v http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/45853 |
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