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know, it would buy a lot. Just as much, I believe, as $100 today. I remember a boat coming in there one time and I got a half a barrel of beautiful July herring for $3. Well now, a dozen herring today is--what?-- it must be 2 or 3 dollars. (So you don't feel that that was small pay, really, for the times.) Well, you put in a lot of work for that one cord, you know. You had to go out to the woods and cut it, and yard it out to the landing, then take the bark off it. Yes. But it was about the only thing. (Did you want to stay in school? Or were you anxious get to out into the work world?) Well, when you walk 3 miles or 4 miles, and then walk back home 3 or 4 miles, you haven't got very much ambition Whale Cruisers Ltd. CHETICAMP Scenic 3-Hour Boat Tours * June to October] 3 Times a Day in July & August Contact Capt. _ Bill Crawford, . Cheticamp Boat Tours Box 10, Grand Etang, Nova Scotia BOE ILO (902)224-3376 Skye Motor Hotel and Licensed Restaurant 48 Comfortable Units * Free Colour Pay-TV (902)625-1300 P.O.Box 190 PORT HASTINGS n.s.boe2to ~ Open All Year at the Canso Causeway ~ ' Stay Tuned through the Summer! "Welcome to Cape Breton" 9:00 am to 10:00 am FEATURING • Traditional Music Local Cape Breton Information • Tourist Destinations & • Special Events CJCB AM Stereo- Cape Breton's Super Station! to stay in school. And at that time in 1925 or '26--well, unless the people had money-- when you got up to be able to get out and work, that's what you did. (Oh, so you wer? en't encouraged to stay in school.) Well, in some of the cases, there were a lot that couldn't afford to. Say if a man had a son, and he got up to be 14 or 15, and he had to cut pulp. And that young fellow was just as good on the saw. You know, you almost had to take him out of school. (Did you have a goal for yourself, what you wanted to be when you grew up?) No. No, it was just from day to day and year to year at that time. You see, there were a lot heading for Boston then. But at that time, I felt I had a responsibility. When I got to be 21 and 22 and 23, that I had a sort of a responsibility. I owed something to Aunt Mary. So, I stayed. But I never regretted it. You know, I got along. After she died, I got married. We were married now for 52 years. And in all that 52 years I can safely say we never had a row. Then Donald told the story about a reporter who visited the old couple whose marriage had lasted so long: And the reporter said. "My." he said, "you've been married for that length of time." And he said, "You're in real good health. What is the reason?" "Well," the old fellow said, "the first year we were married," he said, "we made a bargain. Whenever we'd have a row, she'd go upstairs," he said, "and I'd go outside.... It was all the fresh air I got!" There was a lot of bitterness, in 1925, around in this part of the country, with Church Union. But there was one old fellow was supposed to make a prayer, before Church Union. This is supposed to be his prayer. Donald read from this poem by his father, William Ross: 1. Oh God who made the heaven and earth. Great author of creation Who, in the hollow of thy hand. Holds judgment and salvation, Thy chosen people, Lord, protect That further revelations Illuminate the path for none But me and my relations. Cape Breton Auto Radiator co RADIATOR HOSES • REPAIRING • CLEANING • RECORING .r..?r' _. COMPLETE CYLINDER HEAD SERVICE _' , 518 Grand auto * truck * industrial Sydney Lake Road Complete Line of Gas Tanks 564-63621 • NOW DOING AUTOMOBILE AIR CONDITIONING * 1D THE IbROINTTO-DOMINION BANK Your Bank. Your Way Corner of Charlotte & Pitt Streets P. O. Box 117 Sydney, NS B1P6G9 Phone 567-3610 or 539-6637 • Fax 539-6337