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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/46032 2023-12-31T10:19:36+01:00 _salt-store_ xxxx/xx/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/46032 eng eng S T F46-65 = F157 John Andrews - TWGre. 65-17 C191 1602 Man frightened by _headless_man_: (Twillingate) References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13244 S_13244_salt http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/46032 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 2023-12-04T11:29:28Z salt This Mr Hamlyn you were tellin' me about that you meet (ie met) I think yesterday evening, Garfield Hamlyn,you (recall?) .Well he's a pretty good man,you know. I mean you can depend upon what he tells you. He was telin' me a few years ago,oh quite a few years ago - must be twenty years ago, he and his brother was goin' fishing,and it was after trap-voyage, it was hook an' line fishing in September month,an' he. (o') course you'd always carry your kittle (ie. kettle), you know,an' galley,they'd call it for boilin' a kittle with, an'.the water-jar o' course. He.he was on his way out now from his own home to his brother's,and it came in his mind that he didn't fill the water-jar the evenin' before. A beautiful morning, an' .like it is sometimes before daylight o' course the water (was) burning quite a lot ,you know,and he went down.they'd have the boats.you know, the small boats on what they'd call the 'haul-off' ,you know. They'd pull the boat off,an they'd pull it in (an) just slip in (?slippin') the block,you know. So he went down,an' when he went down between the.the old stage and another old building that was partly down there,it used to be a old salt store, there were a few o' the longers,you know, was gone there. An' when he went around the corner which he was goin.a little PATH he ran right.just about. he didn't touch _the man_ [PT] but he was close.close by un,you know,_the_body_of_a_ _man_: no head, no head whatsoevers, he said, but it was _a_real_man_; _the_shape_of_a_man_, everything - arms ,legs an' all.An' he said.he stopped short, of course, an' he (ie the body) went down.he went down through the longers. He . he settled down, he said. So he went on, an' he wasn't a bit frightened. Went out an' hauled in the boat,and he took out the water-jar for to bring un up to fill un ,an' when he got up over the incline, theres a incline there, I suppose about fifty feet long,an' when he got up on top,he said,on his way up to his brother's,he said he took in a shiverin', you know, after a bit, an' ... Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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salt This Mr Hamlyn you were tellin' me about that you meet (ie met) I think yesterday evening, Garfield Hamlyn,you (recall?) .Well he's a pretty good man,you know. I mean you can depend upon what he tells you. He was telin' me a few years ago,oh quite a few years ago - must be twenty years ago, he and his brother was goin' fishing,and it was after trap-voyage, it was hook an' line fishing in September month,an' he. (o') course you'd always carry your kittle (ie. kettle), you know,an' galley,they'd call it for boilin' a kittle with, an'.the water-jar o' course. He.he was on his way out now from his own home to his brother's,and it came in his mind that he didn't fill the water-jar the evenin' before. A beautiful morning, an' .like it is sometimes before daylight o' course the water (was) burning quite a lot ,you know,and he went down.they'd have the boats.you know, the small boats on what they'd call the 'haul-off' ,you know. They'd pull the boat off,an they'd pull it in (an) just slip in (?slippin') the block,you know. So he went down,an' when he went down between the.the old stage and another old building that was partly down there,it used to be a old salt store, there were a few o' the longers,you know, was gone there. An' when he went around the corner which he was goin.a little PATH he ran right.just about. he didn't touch _the man_ [PT] but he was close.close by un,you know,_the_body_of_a_ _man_: no head, no head whatsoevers, he said, but it was _a_real_man_; _the_shape_of_a_man_, everything - arms ,legs an' all.An' he said.he stopped short, of course, an' he (ie the body) went down.he went down through the longers. He . he settled down, he said. So he went on, an' he wasn't a bit frightened. Went out an' hauled in the boat,and he took out the water-jar for to bring un up to fill un ,an' when he got up over the incline, theres a incline there, I suppose about fifty feet long,an' when he got up on top,he said,on his way up to his brother's,he said he took in a shiverin', you know, after a bit, an' ... |
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S T F46-65 = F157 John Andrews - TWGre. 65-17 C191 1602 Man frightened by _headless_man_: (Twillingate) References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13244 S_13244_salt http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/46032 |
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