mish-birch

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/46839

marsh n People frightened to pass cemetery at night. Light. Cow. (Part of the story of when Mr Burton has to fetch the midwife one night and has to pass the cemetery between Quinton's Cove and Beaumont North) B. .went up this road and I.xx I passed _the cemetery_; you know, there's lot o' people were scared of thie _cemetery_ up here! H.P. Yeah, that's for sure! B. Yes, sir! There's people lots o' times. There's Gord. Burton in this row.Burton, they won't pass this cemetery! I've went up with they across [inc] more than one night, when they was over here an[inc] gets.dark and they was caught here. I went past the cemetery (and) I went on down. And you know where the golewitty.well, just before we takes the football ground.right at the lower end of _the cemetery_.where the road xxxx xxxx was.was so good as almost cut off, with the golewitty and the mish-birch (??) and everything and. few trees was there. Well here was this light! Here was this light.there in the woods about.I don't know.three feet high I suppose. I stopped. (It) brought me up anyhow. 'Twas too near where I had to pass, you know, for me to.go along! But for the [inc] I wasn't afeared! But I stopped and thought to myself, "Well, ([inc] to have thee???) anyhow!" Well.there was a few fellers.people around here then had cows, but they'd no horses. Jonas Jonas Squire [inc] had a cow up here and Uncle William Short had a cow or two, but that never come in my mind, xxxxxxx ne'er one o' them animals. Well I [inc] to myself, "xxxx Old Man, whether you'm there or no, I'm goin' to pass [inc], unless that you'm [inc] better man than I be that's goin' to knock me out!" And, you know, he.I reached back and I got a picket; there was a picket there.Uncle Dan Rowsell had a garden there, see, and there was a ole picket there, you know, fell off, and I took this picket. You know, this was a cow! This was a cow [inc] down there, you know, OVER DNE-cit J. WIDDOSON Used I and Sup Used I 2 Used I marish, mash, mesh, mish, BOG MEADOW, BARRENS, SAVANNA, ...