and talk on the road together and have a little chat; have a little snort too. It’s a wonderful place to have a poll, this Melville.

But in Belle River there was bad arguments and bad fights too. Oh, there’d be nothing unless there’d be a fight, at 10 o’clock in the morning tOO.

I’d hardly bother going out to vote anymore. Things are crooked and twisty and everything now. But I might as well vote as long as I live. That’s the free thing we have here. No, it’s not like it used to be.

There was one thing; I’ll tell you one thing. You knew [Premier] Walter Jones? I got the big job on the big swamp up on the back road there at one time, and Walter Jones and the wife come here that night at 1 1 o’clock. He was through Iris and everywhere. I said, “Did you have supper?” “Jase,” says he, “we didn’t have a bite since we left town this morning.” So Fanny’s father was just after taking over a big box of lobsters and she had a meal ready.

Courtesy Jean Homby

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