they would be dismissed early. Hockey in winter and baseball in summer kept them interested in school. They would go to the woods and cut a piece off a beech tree to make a puck. The wood from a maple tree didn't suit, since they thought it was too light. In winter, Hughie and Agnes Sheehan's residence was near, the coasting arena for Saturday afternoons. They would tie jute bags together to make a sail, which they attached to the wood sleigh, and they had a lot of fun coasting down the hill. Then Agnes, a mother of thirteen children, would make fresh biscuits and they would all come into the house. They would watch television and eat biscuits. This was a novelty, since there were very few televisions around at that time. Joseph and Margaret always had food for their family. When Margaret saw Joe coming home with a hundred-pound-bag of flour, she knew that they would have bread for another while. Peter recalls that one year, they raised some ducks which became pets, and all of them had names. There was one duck, according to Peter, that was purple in color, and easy to distinguish from the others. When the ducks were killed, the children cried and were not interested in eating a duck dinner. In 1967, Joseph was operating a crane at Naufrage when it tipped, pinning him under it for five hours. He was trapped between wood and steel, and they had to use chisels to free him. After two weeks in the Charlottetown Hospital, he went to Montreal to have a hip replacement which left him lame. During this time, Margaret had to operate the household on sixty-seven dollars a month, which was the amount of the family allowance cheque. Like all boys, they were always trying to make something. Kevin decided to make a wheel barrow. In the process, a piece of steel pierced his eye, causing him to lose it. He is thankful that he still has 52