The Harvest Excursion I was out on the harvest excursion in my young days. I was 18; the winter after my father died. I was out there for a couple of months, I guess. When I come home, arrived in Charlottetown , I walked out from Charlottetown . There wasn' t much traffic on the road them years, and I walked and walked and walked till I got out to Newtown . You know where Newtown is, on the other side of Eldon there. And there was ahorse and wagon come along and they stopped and picked me up. I got a drive for about three miles. There was another fella went with me, John Alex MacRae . He didn't come back. He stayed in the west; he lived in the west all his lifetime. He died here just two or three years ago.... He lived down on the Ponds here. We were in Manitoba , place called Melita. Worked at the grain there, threshing the grain and stooking it. Mostly threshing. Great big mills you know. Oh, it didn't last over a month, I guess.... About two dollars or two and a quarter [a day]. I remember when I got home I had 52 dollars on me. That was a lot of money then. I was a millionaire. That's done away with now. They don't have them excursions. There used to be a lot of people go on them then. They'd get up and make a few extra dollars. There was no money here then in farming. Lobsters I started fishing lobsters when I was about 17 or 18.1 fished lobsters for a long time, me and another fella. We owned a lobster factory down at the shore here for years, buying from another couple of boats, packing them. The buyers in Charlottetown bought them.... We canned our lobsters; we shipped them in. At the end of the season we'd get a settlement. And we were very successful at it too. It was a good way of making a dollar them times when the dollars was pretty scarce. Two months, May and June. It's the same yet. There was more lobsters. There was lots of lobsters then. We'd come in some days with four and five hundred pound of lobsters. Today, well, they were a little better this year but the last few years they were gone down to practically nothing.... There's nobody fishing now to what there was then. [The lobster factory had] about half a dozen or so working. We'd go out in the forenoon and fish and get in about 12 o'clock. And then we'd start canning the lobsters. They were canned the day they were caught, so it was a long day.... Put them in boiling water - and that's what preserves them Neil Morrison 51