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meal all day. Well, they'd come in and want tea. Dinner never got over. You'd hate it ready at eleven or eleven thirty and there'd be three and four coming until near supper time. Dinner ran into supper and supper ran into lunch. A late lunch after supper forthe first ones who had supper. I don't know but we enjoyed it... Salt meat and when you started fishing, you knew you'd have fresh fish then. Jim MacLean used to peddle meat. He used to G come once a week with fresh meat. Ixremember f yet one time he came and I think theyfibought~ "“’ eighty pounds and the next day. Earl/had to go to Souris to get twenty pounds.bec'éuse there wasn't going to be enough for dinner. One hundred pounds of meat for a meal. At the time at East Point, we had the fishermen and the factory... There'd be a lot more fishermen you , see (when she cooked at North Lake only for the '. fishermen. We used to have sixty fishermen then. I remember packing lunchcans. It was a big under— taking. You packed lunchcans the night before. Well then in the morning ya had all the thermos bottles to fill with tea. When the fishermen were eating breakfast, we'd fill up the thermos bottles with tea and put them in the lunchcans. I don‘t know. All you could do was to put tea in and put the milk in too. Of course, you had to learn. We had it down by heart pretty well. Who wanted sugar, some didn't want sugar. Some wanted, I remember yet Dave—-- wanted molasses on his bread. Danny Jarvis only wanted biscuit in his lunchcan. All things like that, we remembered it all. I remember marking all those lunchcans...They were a great crowd. We could hear them upstairs on Sunday night. Some ‘of them V _ would be over the bay maybe. We always had something ",2 .5 V r to eat for them (on Sunday night) not supper but ’ something at the table. "Them's the damnedest best . cooks on the Island" says Russell Acorn. "If anyone 5"?" says anything to those old cooks they're sayin it to me.“ We weren't very old then maybe now! (laugh). It was good times and bad but we did have a lot of fun. We were young then and everything looked funny I guess. We made everything. We made our breed, biscuits. This big old camper stove, you know, two big ovens. The bis- cuit pans I tell. you were that big (gesturing -about the size of a desk top). Gert always made biscuit. I made the bread. You'd put eight double loaves of bread in the oven and they'd raise up to the top of the oven. It was a lot of work. Day after day. There was no sliced bread. You'd have to slice it all for sandwiches