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Other popular quips were, “Pull up your socks!" "Pull down your vesti" They were used to deflate someone who was being overly dominant. A brash adolescent was reduced to confusion by the query, "Does your mother know you're out?" Or he might be advised to "Keep it up, and maybe you'll be aman before your grandmother!" A garrulous bore was dismissed with, "why don't you hire a hall?" or, "Go on! Your chin's dragging."

People were likely to make a humorous under-statement, or sometimes an obvious exaggeration, to emphasize a point. On a mid-January afternoon, with the thermometer at eighteen below and still dropping, a New Haven fare? on the Charlottetown Market Square wryly remarked, "T thought I'd start for home as soon./ Ita sold my load, but now I guess I'll wait for the cool of the evenin'." = J

Anothor often-heard catch phrase was, "It's cold enough for two pair of braces."

During one of the very infrequent foggy periods, a South shore resident declared thut "It was so thick that the seagulls were walkin'."

; A fair sample of dry Abegweit old-time *humor is shown in the story of a King's County farmer who was visiting his married daughter on the mainland. Near her home, there was a large dairy farm, owned by a religious order and staffed by monks, which naturally aroused his interest. He spent several days strolling about the fifteen-hundred acre property, closely observing the various activities. Upon his return home, he summed up his impressions in words like these; - -

"ell sir, that place was sartinly somethin! to talk about. That herd of prize milkin! cattle; tht Stables they kept tom in; an' th! dairy where they took care of th! milk -- well, I'm tellin' ye they beat anythin! I've

ever laid eyes on.

"But it was th' monks that really took my time. They do all th' work,