_benighted_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/8121

benight _Baker's light(s)_: one man frightened, another not THAT? (Twillingate) Then there was another.light they used to [BE] seen out here,what they always call _Baker's Lights_ _[phonetic trans]_ (AN' SEES??). They claim there was _a man_ drowned OUT THERE by name of _Baker_. And they'd always see his _light_. And there was a old feller lived over in Back Harbour, OH A hard old case! Old Joe Janes. The first Summer my father went TO (THE) Labrador, that's who he went wi'. He was only a young feller. Old Joe Janes. An' after. after years old Joe and his two brothers went in the bay for a load o' rines in the Spring o' the year, fir rines. Comin' down,they got benighted. By an' by they seed this here _Baker's light_ [phon. trans]. And they begin to say that _Baker's Light_ [phon trans.] was comin''. Old Joe (SAID??), "(THE) HELL ON IT (?) He said, Whether he's comin' or no!" He said, "We got nothing for un IF he comes! And by and' by he come right down in the top o' the soullin'-oar,and dance (D) about! And one of his brothers get faint-hearted, FELL.fell down, fell back on hi(s).on his car. And Joe told him to get up and pull en. He [ie the _light_] was nothing. And that _light_ they said fellied [i.e. followed] un till he get down the BACK HARBOR and put the skiff ashore on the beach. (An' old Joe jumped out on the beach and citched (ie caught) up rocks a'hove [THEM] at um! Yes 1490 J. WIDDOSON Not used Not used Withdrawn