_longers_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/57859

longer n longers 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 tellin' 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 [check]to be a [check]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 whatsoevere, he said, but it was _a real man_; _the shape of a man_, everything - arms ,legs an' all.An' he said.he stepped 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, THERE's 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 ...