Courtesy Josephine Morrissey

Josephine and Joe on the Harland after their wedding.

so many wouldn’t do that. And by the way, he had hardly anything [owing] you know.

There was kind of a dining room then — we had only a small table but then the nicest red rug. It was right in the centre of the room. And he had six chairs. And then in the kitchen he had a stove, a kind of a square stove with the doors on each side of it. And in the kitchen he had a table and six chairs. And he even had a set of irons, smoothing irons you know. Oh, and well, he had everything.

There wasn’t a thing upstairs, though. Imagine now; a bride going into a home today and nothing upstairs. She wouldn’t stay long, would she? Oh my God, he was really a marvellous man. There’s no doubt in the world. And the strange part of it, he was a great cook. He’d make bannock to no end. One day after I was married and upstairs, here up over the kitchen was a part of a cake of bread that he had made. He put it up there.

Well, he had a pig, a big pig, and he had some hens and he had two horses and two or three cows; he hadn’t too many cows. But he was, oh, he was a marvellous man. He had so much machinery, but the machinery then, it wouldn’t be like it’d be now. It wouldn’t be expensive like it is today. The harrows’d be one of these wooden harrows, you know, a homemade

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