_scrags_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
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scrag n You know,and you'd comb that territory right through. No sign of him; no sign of him! And we all come back to the camp at dinner time: no sign o' the man! And in the meantime they were after phonin' Badger then and got hold to headquaters and. the WALKIN'-BOSS boss came up,and reported that they found the man.they had a big barn in Badger,you know,they used to keep,oh possibly a hundred horses there. And xxxxx these horses would get carried up in the woods when haul-off time would come,you know, and WE'D get the snow and the bogs froze up an' everything.He come up,Ned Rideout, and he said.they found the man,he said, in the manure pile down back o' the big barn. And do you know that when we.when we.when we got him back to the camp he didn't have a stitch o' clothes left on him! There was rags on him,you know, but. It appeared that he went now and.and this is the truth: we all rushed out by the camp-door,you know,and outside o' the camp; we could here him.callin' his brother. And.and that sound was goin' almost as fast as x.as sound could go from your ears! It appeared that he was goin' at.and 'twas a xxx .a burnt-over country too,you know,and _scrags_ of.of trees and.windfalls and everything, that he had to go through. It appeared to us that he was goin' about three times as fast as a man would run!Whatever happened we never found out,first or last,but anyway they got him back to the camp and.and the foreman laid him off. He said he couldn't have him around, (LIKE THAT?)Do you know that that put an awful damper on that.that camp that winter? If.if you or I new,er anybody wanted to go to the toilet after.after dark, you wouldn't go without a buddy,no! And before that we were laughin' and livin' her right up! Plenty o' food and THE.best kind,and plenty o' timber to cut in the day. There was no complaints and the boss was quite satisfied with his crew and with the.the amount of timber he was gettin' II DNE-cit No new _number_ J. WIDDOWSON Used I Used I Used I cran, crunnick Source listed as T ...