You didn’t know what to do [if you met a car]. I had a horse and he just reared right up on top of the hill down here on this side of Elmer Stewart’s and clapped his two front feet on the engine hood... . They stopped the car when they seen the horse getting so scared... The old fella got out and grabbed him by the head. After I got by they started again.

Oh, I’ve often been put in the woods with a horse by them cars. There were certain days the cars could run, certain days they wouldn’t. And that was the danger of it. You didn’t know when they were coming and when they weren’t coming.

I had a horse, went over to Murray River to Dr. Brehaut’s one day, and he was scared of cars. I tied him to a big telephone post there, by around the neck and through the ring of the bridle. And I went into the doctor’s and when I came out the horse was laying down on the side of the post, scared to death. He got that scared he lay down. [Later] he wasn’t scared of cars anymore. No, he got over that.

Memories

I can remember 1901 as good as it was yesterday... .

I had a brother drowned at Wood Islands breakwater in 1902 down where the ferries is. And I had another one killed in the woods. Well, he got hurt Tuesday and he was dead the next Tuesday. He was only 19 years of age and the fella that got drowned was only 18 and some months. That was 1904 then. He was buried the first day of 1905. And then my brother Tim, he also got hurt in the woods, got his neck broke. And he lived for four years. And I had a brother died out in Washington, heart attack. And then... the only sister I had, she died out in Youngstown, Alberta. I’m the only one out of eight of a family. I don’t know what they’re leaving me here for but it must be some purpose. There’d be no liars around without me! That’s a fact, nobody to tell them lies.

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