Courtesy Jack Naddy Jack Naddy (left) with parents and sister, mid 1890s. lime. Dump it on the shore and haul it in the spring when you'd be done cropping. By George, we'd have to dig a great, big hole in the ice to commence with. It was about as big as this kitchen here, and there'd be a great, big fork'd go down and dig into the mud, and the capstan'd haul it up and you could trip it and set it into the sleigh. About five dips would make a load. Take about 20 minutes, perhaps, to put a load on. Leave home at eight o'clock. Good horses then; great fun racing, going back and forth to the digger. There'd be perhaps a dozen diggers out, different people, just on the mud. You'd have to go out where the water was deep because those mud beds, they weren't near the shore. They'd just consist of oysters, oyster shells, dead oysters. That's what used to make the mud bed. [The water would be] 15 feet or so; that is, when the tide was in. The oysters'd come up and down with the tide. If the tide was high, you'd have to go with a long shaft. We didn't have a digger of our own; had to pay ten cents a load to the guy to do the digging, and we had to put our own horse in the capstan. 142 BELFAST PEOPLE