_picket_ (picket fence)

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/63880

picket n People frightened to pass cemetary at night. Light.Cow. (Part of a 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 . I passed _the cemetery_; you know, there's lot o' people were scared of this _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 THIS NECK MORE THAN one night, when they was over here AN' THEY 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 was.was good as almost cut off, with the golewitty and the mish-birch (??) and everything and. few trees (WAS there). Welll 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 HILL) I wasn't afeared!But I stopped and thought to myself, "Well (DO WELL TO HAVE THEE???) anhow!" Well.there was a few fellers.people around here then had _cows_, but they'd no horses. Jomas Squire (??) had a cow up here and Uncle William Short had a cow or two, but that never come in my mind ne'er one o' them animals.Well I THOUGHT to myself, Old Man, whther you'm there or no, I'm goin' to pass(SIR?!), unless that you'm (A) better man than I be that's goin' to knock me out!"And, you know me,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 an ole picket there, you know, fell off, and I took this picket. You know,this was a cow!This was a cow QUAT down there, you know, OVER [reverse] like,,she'(ll) lie down, you know, on her belly; she wasn't LAID OUT on her side, she was plummed right there on her belly, and she'll ...