— he used to butcher — and Allan came up to stay with him. I suppose he saw me in the bare feet and he joined the army and he got a new outfit and he gave me the old ones. Allan and I always got along pretty good anyway. But the sad part of it was he was killed over in France, that fella. Yeah.

Frank Halliday’s mother used to invite me down there for Christmas... but in between, they used to invite me down for the haying and the harvesting and the potato digging and the turnip pulling. You see, when the war came along in 1914, Frank Halliday had a boy...by the name of Sherman Bowers. And Sherman Bowers enlisted in the 105th [Battalion] and so when he left, then Frank and his mother took me in.... I used to work down there for eight dollars in the winter and 15 dollars in the summer. I remember going on the Harland — the Harland used to come in to Halliday’s Wharf at that time — and I went in to town there and I bought myself a whole new outfit of underwear, gum boots, socks, jumper, caps, mitts. Cost me 17 dollars. This’d be in the summer of 1915 .

I stayed with Frank for two years and then I went over to Percy Mutch in Mt. Herbert for 20 dollars a month. Frank wouldn’t raise me any more than 15 so I got 20 dollars at Percy Mutch’s so I went with him. From there

Courtesy PEIPA

Halliday’s Wharf where the Harland docked. George Davies 109