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• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
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out av Frightening noise (explained) .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,two boys were down HERE ! Jack, the feller(that ) works there in City Motors near Grand Falls,and Lionel: he was a baby , small. little later then this, I was out around , tearing around I'd go in and start,perhaps work twelve o'clock, one o'clock 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 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 point," 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 slap again! 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,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 after a bit "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' nervous now.Mind to take the two youngsters and go !"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. old pirate money buried around here and .there was this buried up around here,and ...