norther shore

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland; Black Island
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norther People driven from their homes by strange _noises_ and happenings etc. (Nother Harbor) H.I've got to.I've got a good many f(rights).I got a good m(any).I got.(I KNOW I never got a start but I did get un.I did get a.a.I .I suppose, I was .I.my father was drove one time DROVE OUT o' in Little Norther Harbour,his grand- father,HE AN'his father, was drove out. . Drove un (OUT)overnight. They was really drove out of it.YEAH. But, no, I never got.AT down that place . but I got the place when I leaved the island one time I was 'fraid of un,afraid. That's down here where the.all _the pirates_ is to. They say you're always drove out(OF [IT])? But I leaved that. I was really. (WELL), kind o' scared,you know, I wasn't scared like that IF I gotten over it. But I had a first cousin was drove (OUT) on the norther shore,over on (Bragg Island?)He was drove out of it in the night. FE. And did they come,or just _the noise_? H. Oh he.they.they drove 'em out of it! He had to get out of it!They had to get out in the night and row across here to Black Island! Whatever happened. But my father was really drove out of it; they was drove out of THE house,old house there in North(er).Little Norther Harbour. JW. What happened that time ? H. Well now sir,they just.they went down there to go fishin' in the mornin',you know,'cause they used to go out.out the run fishin',see, AND much handier now. They rowed down there in th' evening and stay overnight. When they get up in the morning,well that was their livin',fish,then,and if they didn't get no fish they DIDN'T (sic) had to go without it!We'll say,go without food. But they rowed down there in Little Norther Harbour, 'cause they was goin' down round the Gull Island somewhere,or goin' out the run now, summer fishin', they wouldn't have OVER. [reverse] so far to go in the morning and.so by God father.grandfather had to leave it! They had to leave it, and faher was 'long with un,a young man then, or a big bellamer boy,we'll call un,but they had to go. They had to leave the house in the ...