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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/9974

be v FE. What would you get in your stockin',Uncle Will? E. Got a Jack-in-the Box one time. 'Twas on the chair,that xxx was. 'Twas too big to go in the stockin'. And I got IT in bed and.and Art was sleepin' with me,my brother Art,see,sleepin' wi' me, and we got out before daylight,see,for./ see what we had Christmas morn(IN') ,and we got this. 'Twas a light morn(IN') ,the moon was up,see. And we got it in. Mother and them didn't know it,you know! And we got it in the.in the room,and,"Gosh!" I said,"Art,boy, I got.I got a bottle o' syrup!" Bottle o' syrup!" "Nah!" he said," 'tidn't <- a bottle x o' syrup!." And I said,"'Tis!" And he was foolin' around with un, tryin' to get the top off of it, my bottle o' syrup,and I.and he struck a little hook an' eye,see,an'.an'.an' loosed it,see,and up comes this Jack-in-the-Box! Bouf!He comes up! THE black nigger, nigger.(This) Jack-in-the-Box. well frightened me to death! I dropped IT. ( ?) IN the box/and.down on the bed! And now we'd got a job to hook it in the dark,see!The moon was up. But we had to get it out on our chair now. We.made.made believe,you know,that we.didn't get it 'fore daylight,see.But we had this in before daylight!Couldn't wait for daylight!Yeah. Yes _Jack-in-the-box_ frightened children in the dark. [-]C171[-] Used I and Sup Used Sup Used Sup Source appears in DNE Sup as T 171-65. Phonetic transcriptions appear through quote; they are not reproduced here because database cannot reproduce all symbols.