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mc_english_kent02_a

Recording date1975
Speaker age85
Speaker sexm
Text genrepersonal narrative
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[INTERVIEWER] **** Okay. We're on. Heh? [INTERVIEWER] **** We're on now. **** I say, there was a lot of gypsies about the place. **** And eh, they used to come around to the back doors, to every **** cottage **** and sell these old **** pegs, made out of **** They used to make'em **** and **** sell'em sh-- about tuppence a dozen, **** and what the women used to peg their clothes **** with, you see; you've seen them, [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** Well, they, I had eczema **** when I was eight, in mi eye, that eye; **** that's **** what made that, **** pulled it one side. **** And eh, the doctor couldn't seem to, give us a lot of ointments and one thing and other, **** and he couldn't see-- seem to do it any **** And a old gypsy come to -- woman with -- door with **** What's the matter with the boy?, **** she says. **** Oh, he had eczema in his eye, **** she said. **** Oh, she says, **** That's not. **** She says, **** Go to the chemist **** and **** get some white copperas, **** and **** bathe it, **** she says, **** twice a day. **** And we done that **** and it was gone in a fortnight. **** How do you think about that? [INTERVIEWER] Incredible. **** That was **** when I was eight. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** And I had it all right down the face. Hhm. [INTERVIEWER] **** Did people like the gypsies in those days? **** Oh, we didn't mind'em. **** Well, there were some bad gypsies and some good ones there, **** we had one lot, Charles -- name of **** Charles, used to **** come **** and see my **** dad, **** and if they'd got a decent **** pony, they used to bring **** it **** and sell it to **** I remember **** they sold him an old grey horse one day, **** starved of life; **** he could reall--, he could hardly **** And Father says, **** I don't want that. **** He says, **** Give us a fiver for it, Edward, **** and you can have it. **** And so Father gave him a fiver for this horse. **** And eh, we nursed him up, **** and **** got him **** to be in good condition. **** We sold him to the Earl Sourstone to this farm just at -- next door **** And eh, about three years afterwards, I didn't live here, mind then, mind you; **** I lived at Molash. **** Three years afterwards -- [INTERVIEWER] **** What, how old were you then, about? **** I was eleven, about eleven or twelve. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** Father had a letter, from a Ba-- **** man named Barnes, **** Street End Farm -- they **** Do you know of'em? [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** She was going to Germany. **** And eh, she wanted Lord Sourstone, the Earl of Sourstone **** really, except that we always called him **** Lord, he but he's Earl, **** If he'd have this horse back, **** 'cause she didn't want **** to sell him, **** she wanted eh him **** to have a good home all his life. **** And eh, he said, **** No, I don't want him. **** Says, **** You send him to Edward **** He saved his life, **** he said, **** He'd like **** to have him. **** So eh, sh-- sh-- she wrote to **** my father; we went **** over there, to **** see **** her -- ponycart, and eh, **** she said, **** Now, she says, I'm going to give you that **** horse on conditions you **** never sell him; **** you keep him **** till **** he dies, **** or have **** She says, **** And you can have his this cart and the harness and everything with him. **** So eh, she told her groom, **** Put the horse in the cart, **** and **** put all the tackle in it, his nosebags and his flynet **** -- you don't **** know what that **** is, I **** A net they used to throw over'em **** to keep the flies off, **** and everything was put in his cart, **** and I brought it home. **** And we kept that horse eleven year; **** he was a beautiful horse. **** That's the old horse **** we used **** to drive the wedding, people to the weddings with, **** when I got older, you know. **** Yeah, we kept him eleven years. **** And we turned him out, **** n-- when he got too **** weak to work **** -- too, he was, l-- **** got rid lame, and **** winter was coming, **** so Dad **** said, Don't **** like doing **** it, he said, But we've, we have to put **** You called him Buller. After the old man what, eh, in the Boer War, General Buller, [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. Hhm. **** Well, they'd given him the name **** when we bought him **** -- when we fetched **** And, I couldn't go see him **** killed. **** I, I never went. **** Father went up **** and **** took him up the road, in the little paddock **** we got, **** and they shot him in there. **** They hadn't got humane killers then; **** they had to shoot them, you know. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** They used to shoot them right in the forehead. [INTERVIEWER] **** What used to happen to the carcass? **** Oh, that went away for dog [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** Or else human consumption, who knows? **** Yeah, there was a lot of, lot of meat -- **** horse meat eaten in Any amount of it. **** So there was **** in the last war, wadn't [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. Whale **** Didn't you know that? Oh, yeah. **** A friend of mine -- a rich man -- said to me **** and Ned Coleman -- that's in **** the last war, now, **** I'm going **** on to -- he said, I'm **** gonna **** take you boys out and **** At a sale, we met him; **** he used to have some sheep there. **** And eh, we went to The Bull Hotel at **** Sittingbourne, to have a good **** All **** they got **** was whale **** Old Coleman said, **** No, I'm not eating that **** -- he's a Scotch **** chap -- **** he said, No, I'm not **** He says, **** Have you got nothing out of a tin? **** Well I think **** we had bully beef at the Hhm. [INTERVIEWER] **** Did you, w-- dealing with Heh? [INTERVIEWER] **** Dealing with horses all your life, **** have you got any special remedies or horse **** medicines that you used on No, no. Only kindness. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** That's the main thing with horses. **** They wa-- pony'd talk to **** you if you got -- if you **** had'im long, but we never used to keep'em, **** long, see, perhaps we only had a horse **** My father used, I used to be out on the farm **** to work, with a pair of horses, **** and he used to come along with a man, **** and **** see this horse **** work, **** and he used to sell it to him, **** and we used to take it out, **** and **** go home, **** and he used to take it, **** pay for it **** and **** take it away. **** It was always paid for golden sovereigns, you know **** -- always paid with golden Hhm. **** When I used to go round with chicken, **** buying poultry, **** I had -- Father used to give me about seven or eight **** sovereigns to go off **** with, **** And I paid a woman at Challock, right opposite The Halfway House, for some **** chicken, and I'd got three sovereigns **** left when I paid **** And, **** when I got home, **** I'd only got two. **** Was only a mile. **** And I said, **** I must've dropped that, **** when I paid her, see, **** when I put it back in mi pocket, these three. **** So I, my old neighbour got a pony, **** colt he was, **** and he, he asked me -- the **** blacksmith, if I would give him a **** run, to, you know, take him **** out, and so I used to drive him **** out when I **** So, I slipped round **** to see the old bloke, **** and I says, **** Lend us the old cob, for half hour, **** I want **** to run to Challock. **** Oh, he was pleased; **** he put him in the harness and cart **** and off I went. **** Oh, this pony could go too. **** Up Challock we went, **** and **** before I got out the cart **** I see this sovereign **** laying on the grass. **** That was something, **** that was a week's wages, you know. **** I got married on sixteen bob a week. [INTERVIEWER] **** When was that? Nineteen [INTERVIEWER] Were you worked -- you were still working for your father then, Yeah. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** I worked for him all my life, **** till I took mi own farm. [INTERVIEWER] **** Hhm. Why, what, what did ehm, you know you said, you said last time **** that you've managed a farm **** when you were sixteen. **** We -- I was managing mi father's farm **** 'Cause he, he was never at home; **** he was always away. [INTERVIEWER] **** How bi--, how, it was thirty acres, Thirty-one acres. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. Hhm. [INTERVIEWER] How many men did he have on it? How many what? [INTERVIEWER] **** How many men? Just yourself? **** Just miself. **** I used to, we used to hire for the binder **** to come **** and **** cut the corn; **** we only had seven acres of arable. **** And eh, our neighbour, he used to come in **** and **** cut the corn. See? **** And then I used to have to stand it up. **** I used to have to go mow around it in the morning, **** so the horses didn't trample it down, **** and the binder went round **** and **** cut it, **** then I had to shock it **** -- we called **** it shocking **** it, standing it like that, **** see -- tending **** And then **** when it got dry, **** I used to carry it, **** and I used to go up there with a horse and van miself, **** and **** load it, **** and **** take it home, **** pitch it on a stack, **** and **** stack it, **** and I used to do it all. **** My brother come home. **** He was in the army, **** he come home for a weekend. **** He says, **** I'll help you **** carry those oats. **** So, he come **** and **** helped me, **** and we was getting on fine. **** And my father and him couldn't get on at all; **** they was always flying at one another. **** So, my father come along, **** and he says, **** You wanna **** lay them sheaves a bit further out, up this end. **** Cause it was, **** you either you had to lay them true, you see, **** to stand. **** My brother looked over the corner, **** says, **** You hook off, **** we don't, we got on very well without you. **** My father turned round **** and **** walked away. **** I'll never forget it. Hhm. **** But these old gypsies, they used to come, **** when we moved to Molash. **** And we had a little, little piece of ground we, with a cottage in it, **** we hired **** from Chilham **** That's Sir Ernest **** Davies's father, **** I think he was a, he was an old army man, General or **** something, **** General, Capt-- Captain **** Davies that's what it was, and **** eh, that come natural then, and eh, we gave him a half crown a year for With a cottage on it, but, you know, uninhabited, **** it was dropping down. **** How he come **** to th-- have that piece of li-- little square of land, in, right in the middle **** of Lord Grand's, **** Well with this cottage, I suppose **** somebody owed him some money, **** he took it, off'em. **** Anyway, we had it for a half crown a year, **** and we pull--, I pulled the old cottage down **** miself, **** and grubbed the foundations **** out **** and put it down with **** And that was just handy for us **** 'cause **** when was summertime **** when you we -- I was working up there with mi **** horses, I got, well half of a quarter of a **** mile to walk home, with the horses and back **** again, and so I used to keep mi old bike out **** there **** and put the horses in **** there to have their dinner on the **** grass, **** and bike home, **** And then **** bike back **** and **** put mi horses, **** and **** catch mi horses up **** and **** go to work again. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. Did the gypsies used to use that? **** And the gypsies used to come in there, **** and I used to a-- they used to d-- ask down **** so ask if they could **** come **** there and stop for a day or **** Especially when the fairs were on. **** There was Badlesmere **** Fair -- that's in **** May **** always -- Throwley Fair -- **** that's just **** up the road -- Molash Fair, Challock Fair, all within a month, **** And my father used to go to Whitstable **** and **** get a bushel of whelks. **** You know **** what whelks are? **** And then he used to bring'em home, **** put'em in the copper **** and **** boil'em. **** And us kids had to get the whelks out their shells of a night, that night, **** to take **** to the fairs, **** and he used to have a whelk **** stall, and you'd sell them a penny a plate, about six whelks on a **** Little tiny plates they was, about four inches across'em, three inches, **** and he used to sell these whelks, **** and me and my brother used to go to the fair; **** that was just our jobs **** going there. **** And Mother, she used to stand there **** and **** sell the whelks, **** while Father, he was always round them dealer **** boys, having some **** And then he used to drive home, **** about, **** used to get home about eleven, of a night, **** and **** what whelks was left, **** we kids used to eat. **** If there was any, **** but very seldom was any left, you know. **** Always done that, ev-- for years, he [INTERVIEWER] **** What other things were at the fair? Hhm? [INTERVIEWER] **** What other things were there at the fair? **** Oh, roundabouts and all manner of shies, coconut Just the same as the ordinary fairs now. **** 'Course, nothing that's so elaborate; nothing like, but coconut **** My brother, he was a dab hand, **** he, he'd knock coconuts off. Hhm. [INTERVIEWER] Were these gypsies' stands or...? **** These gypsies all there with these turns outs, you **** Old Charles, I don't know **** what happened to them. **** They come **** and **** see us every year. **** I went up there one night -- evening, **** with'em, and I used to go **** there and they used to tell me all manners of yarns, you **** Hhm, nice people they were. **** And: **** Come **** and **** have some tea. **** I went in **** and **** had some meal with them **** -- what do you **** think it Hedgehog! **** They didn't tell me **** before ever I'd eat it! **** I said, Oh, **** I says, **** Do-- I **** thought it was **** No, That's hedgehogs, **** he says, **** Better than rabbit. **** I says, **** How do you get the spikes off him? **** Oh, We roll him in some clay **** and **** bake him, **** he said, **** And then **** take it, **** it all drops off. **** Bake him in the clay. [INTERVIEWER] Is it good? **** Yeah, it was. **** I liked it. **** It was the only bloody time **** ever I did taste it, **** I liked it then. **** Of course, **** when we were young, **** we would eat anything, wouldn't Them days. **** But you didn't get a lot of meat, you know. **** No, we had, used to always have a, a joint of meat Saturdays. **** Father used to go to Canterbury, **** and **** bring **** home, **** he used to stop to the old butcher's as -- pretty near sold out, **** perhaps and **** then, when they couldn't sell **** out, he used to buy a big joint, see, about seven or eight pounds, all in, in one piece -- all bones and all, **** And he used to come home **** and we used to have a proper fry-up Saturday **** And that used to have to last us all the week, with the rabbits **** -- course, there was **** always get a **** rabbit when you **** Thousands of rabbits was, on our place. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. And pheasants. **** We never touched the pheasants. **** My father was so; **** that was the agreement. **** We could have what rabbits **** we liked; **** and they were our perks. **** But **** never touched the birds. **** And they used to come out on our field in dozens, **** when you put your corn in. **** It's just the same here, **** when I come here. **** Today it's the same conditions. **** I had eighteen in my garden last summer -- **** pheasants, properly ruined my **** I sent for the syndicate **** and **** told'em, **** Pretty soon **** do something about it. [INTERVIEWER] **** Was there any poaching? **** Poaching, in them days, not now. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** Oh, everybody would poach **** or I went **** poaching **** when the War was on, **** 'Fourteen War was **** But they couldn't do nothing with me. **** 'Cause I knowed too much about'em. **** He -- d-- **** e-- the keeper what looked **** after our place, I **** happened to see a **** motorbike and sidecar -- the chap lived just **** up the road here -- come up our lane to **** I thought, **** what the devil's he going up? **** So, I slipped over the hedge **** and **** slipped up **** to see **** where he was going, see. **** See the keeper, with a bag, with a dozen pheasants in it. **** And he was holding them there **** and **** sold'em to him, **** and, this chap went off, **** he lived just up the road here, **** had a pub, his father did. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** I never said nothing **** till I got alongside the old keeper one day **** and he says **** -- I was in the, just in the **** wood getting a rabbit, you **** see, yes, and he **** say, You're **** I says, Oh, **** I says, **** I know **** I'm trespassing, **** I say, **** But they, they're getting a bit short. **** Because everybody was having rabbits then, **** 'cause the grub was so short. Hhm. **** Oh, yeah, I says, **** Didn't trespass quite so much **** as you did **** when you was unloading them twelve pheasants last Thursday, **** did **** He said, **** You didn't see me, did **** I says, **** Yes, I did. **** **** Never s-- found more **** fault, I could **** go where I **** liked in that wood **** We used to shoot deer down there. Yeah. **** You set snares up with wire, **** where they used to jump in the field, you see. **** And eh, I had a good old retriever **** And this was all, **** I'd be **** -- what would I be **** About seventeen, I suppose, seventeen or eighteen years old. **** I used to break these gun **** I was one of the crack **** shots; I wiped the board at **** Won a silver watch and chain, **** before I was seventeen, **** but then I lost the silver watch **** when I went in the army **** -- th-- somebody **** So, I was about sixteen, **** when I won that silver watch and chain. **** And eh -- my father used to take a load of chicken, to Boughton, The **** You know **** where that is? Do you? **** And we used to shoot'em off. **** He used to s-- **** sell -- say, a chicken was worth **** My father'd have twelve tickets threepence each. **** That was four bo-- eh, four pence **** each; that was four bob, [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. See? **** And then they used to shoot for it. **** Had a dozen of'em, f-- or fourteen of'em, as **** many as he could **** Oh, he, he wouldn't let it **** go **** before he got enough money **** to cover the cost of the chicken, **** then **** what he got out of that **** was profit. **** And I bou--, he come home one day, with a load of **** rabbits -- were all the **** I remember **** I was -- oh, it **** was when I was about **** And he said, **** Here you are, **** he says, **** Here's a job for you, **** you can have them. **** And he give'em to me, see. **** Mhm, but I didn't want'em. **** I sold'em all, bar one. **** And I couldn't sell this one, **** it was a big old black doe. **** So Dad said, **** Take that old rabbit down Boughton tomorrow, **** he said, **** We will, eh knock that off. **** I won it back three times. **** Then I sold it to mi uncle, for half a crown. **** And eh, one of the toffs down there, he says, **** You're a pretty good shot, boy. **** I, Yeah. **** He says, **** Come in there **** -- they used to have these swinging **** targets -- **** he says, **** Come on, **** he says, I'll pay **** for you, Come on along **** with us, **** And I beat'em! **** I had a silver watch and chain. **** I beat the whole lot, **** there were twelve, fourteen of'em. **** There were just as many shots, **** that **** you could get in a card **** when it had swung six times. **** And it shook quick, you know, **** it -- this chap was swinging **** it and you had to **** shoot, and I hit it every [INTERVIEWER] **** Where had you learnt **** to fire a gun? Hhm? [INTERVIEWER] **** Where, where had you learnt **** to, to handle a gun? **** Oh, I handled a gun **** since I was twelve. **** Father ehr, **** shooting these rabbits, on the farm, see. With mi old muzzle-loading gun, you know. **** You shoot the old powder in, **** put a bit of paper in, **** ram it down, **** then **** shoot some shots in **** and **** ram your shot hard, **** and then **** put your cap on, **** never **** put your cap on **** before you'd that you had pull the trigger back, **** put the cap on, **** and you was loaded. **** Then s--, then you **** shot, and then you got all that go-through **** again -- it **** wadn't like it Hhm. [INTERVIEWER] **** When, when were these ehm shoots held? Hhm? [INTERVIEWER] **** Were they held **** -- when were these shoots **** held? Were they a Saturday or week night What eh -- [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. [INTERVIEWER] Yes. **** Oh, always on the Saturday. You know, Saturday Hhm. **** I went down there several times with Father. **** That was about the last time, **** I suppose, I yes, **** because Father, he was ill after that. **** 's **** when I come back from the army, **** he had a cancer in his stomach. **** That's **** what killed him. **** He eh, he used to live here, my father did, in this house. **** He was, ehr, working on the farm, **** and he used to sleep in the bedroom **** but he wouldn't ever go in there **** -- not when he was **** He said, **** I've see enough of that **** when I was here. **** I'll show it to you **** before you go away. **** It's got this old king beam up **** You ever seen one? [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** Oh, you don't want **** to look at that then. [INTERVIEWER] **** I'll have a look. Hhm? [INTERVIEWER] **** I've only seen the one. Yah. [INTERVIEWER] **** This one's different. **** I'll take you up there. [INTERVIEWER] **** What were these fairs, that, ehm-- Hhm? [INTERVIEWER] **** What days were these fairs held on at Badlesmere and? **** Always in May. [INTERVIEWER] **** Always on a Saturday, were they or? **** Oh, always Saturday, oh, yes -- **** Had to work seven days a week. **** The fair was, **** the kids used to run in the afternoons, **** and the eh adults never got to a fair much before four o'clock. **** See, they had their stock to look after on the farms and all that, **** but plenty of children there. But eh, hm! **** Used to enjoy ourselves at the fair. [INTERVIEWER] **** Did you ever go to Canterbury Fair or Faversham Carnivals No. **** No, I never went. **** Couldn't afford it. **** We had saved our money **** -- not waste **** 'f not we should never had money enough **** to buy out the farm, **** should **** Did I ever tell you **** what it cost? **** I told you nearly five-hundred, didn't [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** Well, it cost three-fifty. **** I remembered **** when I got into bed; **** I thought, **** I believe **** I told him **** that cost five-hundred. **** But it was three-fifty. **** And eh, we hadn't been there above six months, **** and I was in the field at work, with pair of horses; **** my father come up, nine o'clock, after post. **** He says, **** You got another job now. **** I said, **** What's that? **** He says, **** You gotta go to Wye, **** to pay the quit **** You know **** what a quit rent **** Well, you go **** to pay the Lord of the Manor so much, **** that was, we'd hired the farm then, **** 'fore we bought it. **** And he says, **** You better take that fresh mare, **** he says, **** And you can give her a good trial, **** he said. **** So, I was off; **** I's about fifteen, sixteen **** -- **** sixteen, I **** reckon I **** And I goes down there **** and this quit rent was three and six Hhm. **** 'Course, Father didn't know nothing about it, **** 'cause he'd only just bought it, **** and he couldn't read or write, **** he didn't know **** what a quit rent **** was, and, neither did **** **** but anyway I went down there to the **** the pub='s name was **** it was in Charing anyway **** we had to go there in Wye **** And I got there **** and I see a man there **** I knew. **** **** I said, **** Where do I have to go pay this quit **** Oh, he says, In here. **** And he took me in there, **** and it was our, a chap **** used to come round, for a f-- feed firm, you know, **** He took me in there, **** and I paid this three and six pence. **** I said, **** Do I have a receipt? **** Ahh, you don't wanna a receipt, **** he says. **** He says, **** You ain't going home. **** I said, **** I'm going home, **** I said. **** No, he said, **** You've got to stop to lunch. **** Oh, **** stop to lunch, **** he says. **** See, we was a tenant, of Lord **** Grand and he put a lunch on for all his tenants, **** And they had t' pay this three and six quit **** So, I stopped to lunch, **** put the horse away, **** and, wadn't many people there, **** I was early. **** And this mare, you had to st-- take her out the **** cart, you had to stand her right up against a **** Because s-- in her young days, somebody had took her **** out **** and got her **** harness hooked up on the **** cart, **** and frightened her, **** So, **** when you took her out, in the open, **** she dashed out, **** perhaps 'fore you got all the harness **** undone. **** So, we always used stand her right up against the wall, **** so she couldn't dash out -- dash forward, **** see, till we got her **** out, and **** then pushed the cart back off **** Hhm, anyway, old Slippery took her; **** we couldn't send her to a cousin. **** He, she went to Folkestone. **** He put her in a four-in-hand, down at Folkestone, **** run her from Folkestone to Dover. **** He said **** he'd never had a better horse in his life. Hhm. **** But she was a devil **** to take out of harness. **** And eh, **** as I say about this quit **** rent, we went in **** there, there was about twenty of **** us, I should **** think, sit down to a table in this **** pub, and ohh, dinner was laid out, all cold meat, and salad, **** bread rolls, and beside each plates was a little green glass, and a bottle of ale, in front of you -- pint bottle, mind you, not a half pint: pint -- and a glass, this **** I looked at this green glass, **** I'd never seen a little teeny green glass 'fore, **** and the old bloke come round **** and **** shot some wine in it -- in this green **** Now, we drink the health of the King -- **** Q-- Queen Elizabeth, wadn't [INTERVIEWER] How, well, how old were you? **** I -- sixteen, near **** Or rather st-- King Edward, I [INTERVIEWER] Edward, just about. Edward, I think, yeah. Hah? [INTERVIEWER] Edward, it would be. **** King King Edward, [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** That's it. **** We had to drink the health of the King, **** that's it. **** So, we tossed this here, little lot. **** And he filled them all up again. **** Now we'll drink the health of the Lord of the Manor. **** That was Sir **** And: Then we had to drink the health of somebody else. **** So we had, say **** -- I **** know we had three or **** four we had drink the health **** **** And then we had some beer. **** Well, I'd no-- never go-- been used to spirits of **** any sort **** -- I whether, **** what it was, I'd **** But this old room was going round and round. **** And I sit there, **** and I'd had mi meal, **** and all of a sudden, the room started **** going round, you know. **** And I said to a chap, now **** I said, **** I'm pretty near boozed. **** He says, **** You look **** as if you were quite. **** So, Oh, I said, **** Well, I'm off. **** No, **** Don't go yet, **** they said. **** I said, **** No, I'm off. **** And I got out **** and **** when I, when I got out, got out in the air, **** I properly had it. **** I staggered about all over the place. [INTERVIEWER] Hhm. **** This josseler chap at this pub put mi mare **** in -- she **** was easy to **** put in -- and **** I got up **** and they said I **** went through Wye as if I 'as **** And **** when I got home, **** the mare was l-- white with lather, from head to **** My father come out **** and he started **** swearing, **** What the hell you been up to with her? **** I got up in the cart **** and **** pitched right out in the, in the yard. **** [UNCLEAR] Dad had to carry me **** I's drunk as hell. Yeah. **** I never forget. **** **** I thought about that **** when I was up in bed; **** I thought to myself, **** I never told him that. Hhm. [INTERVIEWER] **** Did you go every year after that? Hey? [INTERVIEWER] **** Did you go every year afterwards? **** No, I wouldn't go no more. **** Father said, **** No, They can come **** fetch their quit **** rent, they want **** it; **** says, You ain't going down there no **** Well, **** never heard no more about it. **** It were just a day's **** out, **** that's what it **** Lord Grand was giving his tenants a day out, [INTERVIEWER] **** Was it a good dinner, **** or can't you remember? **** Oh, I don't know, **** it was cold meat, **** jolly sure **** it was. **** Cold beef, I expect. Hhm. Yeah. Hm!
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