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• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/76608

token n The one thing I ever.I said. H. (Twas) The only thing I ever I did see that I know was real.I.I seen. I see those _two people_. I know 'twas. FE. Could you.could you hear them walking? H. Oh yes,sir! Clothes rushin' just that same.I.I don't know.I.I couldn't (i)magine, (I).I think that was two sisters that time,_token o' two sisters._I knowed 'em,you know, I think.I knowed 'em. I think that was pretty real,I knowed 'em, They was dressed in white,sir, just so white as the holland (??).as the.you never. never come from the.from the laundry,their clothes was never starched no brighter, no whiter THAN what it was! The snow never fell from the heavens so white as that was! FE. And they were walking.? H. They was walkin',sir,I knowed their hair, that's why I knowed 'em. FE. .But they are dressed as men? H. Dressed.no,dressed in women's clothes.Two .two girls' 'T was FE. Two girls,yeah. H. Yea,_two young women._ I knowed their hair, FE. Where were they living at the (time??)? H. Dora's (??) twin,that was. FE. Were they living or dead then? H. No,they was dead,sir.No! They was livin' then.They died after ,shortly after - two of 'em.Yeah NO, I knowed the two of 'em,sir,just so real as I knows you.I walkED but I never talkED with 'em. FE. They didn't speak to each other? H. No,sir! No. I knowed their,their hair was long,and I know Harry's wife was one of 'em up here,first wife. FE. And why did they walk along wi' you then? H. They (was) walkin' along broadside to me,sir. Three of us would just today.say you [Reverse] _TOKEN_ - Card 2 .(and)that man was ~ there now, (AW')I was here,walkin' down the road,and when I got abreast o' t_he cemetry,_ they disappeared.That's where they disappeared to. FE. And did you. find H. Disappeared in that _old cemetery_ up there,sir. FE. And the next day,did you find out if they were home at the time? H. Oh they's home,yes,because.Harry's wife died shortly after that,see.Yeah.And nine months from that their sister was dead.He was twin,see. FE. Funny feeling ,isn't it? H. One of ...