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rampike Ghosts in boat warn fishermen not to return to a particular place. Threat of no return heeded. (Cape Roger near St.Joseph's PB) .one time.But it's not so very long ago. PERHAPS BE fifty or six(ty).forty years, forty five,fifty years ago,there was a boat came down fromFox Cove,from...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/71340 2023-12-31T10:19:37+01:00 rampike image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/71340 eng eng R Jim Harris (St Joseph's PB) T F6-64 = F81 T F6-64 = F11 Jim Harris - C17 64-7 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 15323 R_15323_rampike http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/71340 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:22Z rampike Ghosts in boat warn fishermen not to return to a particular place. Threat of no return heeded. (Cape Roger near St.Joseph's PB) .one time.But it's not so very long ago. PERHAPS BE fifty or six(ty).forty years, forty five,fifty years ago,there was a boat came down fromFox Cove,from Burin,cuttin' wood. They'd always do down there cuttin' wood,you see.So they gets there in th'evening late, too late to go cuttin' wood,but they had to go (and) get a couple o' turns for to cut up for the night,to burn aboard the boat.And they goes up in Casey's Brook.or Tibbo's Brook,that's the brook about halfway down the arm,where they moored up to,and they went up and.There was a _big old rampike_,a _big old tree,huge old tree_ like you do see in the woods, all gone away,and (rust). and rotted out,apart from the .outside shell. Th'outside shell,about two inch of it,was right solid, and dry.So one of the men cut it down,carried it down and cut it up and took it aboard. And when they were eatin' their supper they heard someone come alongside the boat.And they gets up and looks,and there's a longboat, something like a pirate's longboat,was comin' alongside,with seven men into her .And. but they didn't come aboard. They only just come alongside,and there was.the fellow was aft in the boat,he was a good fellow,very good,but th'others was right vexed and mad because he cut down their restin' place.And they charges.Picco his name was,the man's name was,and .they want(ed)to go aboard,and this fellow said,"No.You'll never go aboard. But there's one thing," he said, "we'll tell you. If ever you come to Cape Roger again,if you're here in.the morrow morning, iN the morning,when the daylight comes,or if ever you comes here again,you'll never go out of it!" So they took their anchor and they come on out. And in the first August Gale in nineteen and twenty seven,was it? -Nineteen twenty eight,I guess,the first August Gale was,this old man Picco was still on the.one (of) these boats,Burin Boats.And of course every boat was runnin' ... Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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rampike Ghosts in boat warn fishermen not to return to a particular place. Threat of no return heeded. (Cape Roger near St.Joseph's PB) .one time.But it's not so very long ago. PERHAPS BE fifty or six(ty).forty years, forty five,fifty years ago,there was a boat came down fromFox Cove,from Burin,cuttin' wood. They'd always do down there cuttin' wood,you see.So they gets there in th'evening late, too late to go cuttin' wood,but they had to go (and) get a couple o' turns for to cut up for the night,to burn aboard the boat.And they goes up in Casey's Brook.or Tibbo's Brook,that's the brook about halfway down the arm,where they moored up to,and they went up and.There was a _big old rampike_,a _big old tree,huge old tree_ like you do see in the woods, all gone away,and (rust). and rotted out,apart from the .outside shell. Th'outside shell,about two inch of it,was right solid, and dry.So one of the men cut it down,carried it down and cut it up and took it aboard. And when they were eatin' their supper they heard someone come alongside the boat.And they gets up and looks,and there's a longboat, something like a pirate's longboat,was comin' alongside,with seven men into her .And. but they didn't come aboard. They only just come alongside,and there was.the fellow was aft in the boat,he was a good fellow,very good,but th'others was right vexed and mad because he cut down their restin' place.And they charges.Picco his name was,the man's name was,and .they want(ed)to go aboard,and this fellow said,"No.You'll never go aboard. But there's one thing," he said, "we'll tell you. If ever you come to Cape Roger again,if you're here in.the morrow morning, iN the morning,when the daylight comes,or if ever you comes here again,you'll never go out of it!" So they took their anchor and they come on out. And in the first August Gale in nineteen and twenty seven,was it? -Nineteen twenty eight,I guess,the first August Gale was,this old man Picco was still on the.one (of) these boats,Burin Boats.And of course every boat was runnin' ... |
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