| Summary: | puffin 1 n Associating Place names to animals, vegetables, etc. RAMEA - Puffins "You Ramea puffin" Burgeo - Gulls Cape La Hune - Shags Boxey - Rats ---Muddy Hole rat. [MH is part of Ramea] Shipcove - cats - part of Ramea Hermitage - turnips Dawson Cove - cabbage I guess there are many more of this nature as well. (OVER) [reverse] In school in Ramea there was rivalry between Ship Cove and Muddyhole, different sections of Ramea. One would say "Muddyhole rat!" They would call us "Shipcove cats!" More or less joking Even at the University you might pass someone you know from Burgeo you'd say, "Hello, you Burgeo gull!" "Look at the Puffins sitting down!" - if some Burgeo fellows were getting in line or at one table. DEC 1 1966 Used I and Sup Used I 2 Used I NEWFOUNDLAND FOLKLORE SURVEY Reverse side of P_14580
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