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sandwiches, egg sandwiches, chopped egg- You didn't have, at that time, you didn't have as much on hand either. It was harder to get ' things to put in the lunchcans. Sweets you had but fresh fruit, fresh meat. It was only once, maybe once a week that you had a great big,

cook a roast not one roast but half a cow and 55 then you had something for the lunchcans.

The work was long and hard. You got up early and had a long day ahead of you.

That was getting up at five o'clock in the morning and to work around six. Walk, up across the fields, we'd come up there. Up the road and go in by Percy's and go down through the swamps and across that way.

' We’d pick up Ella and go along too. Sometimes we used to stay, we'd be so late getting back at night and. get

finished in the evening. It was hardly worth your 56 \ while. _ V

w u: I used to hear them complaining, the ones that had

‘ worked in the factories. They'd be talking about

the long warm days in June. You know they'd get sick of it... I guess what those people were: talking about was to get out. It wasn't so much the heat but it was

to get out on the fine days instead of being in under

the roof. 57 ,'

The day was often long but it was made more bearable. and less tedious by the "goings on" and "carrying on" of several members of the factory crew. There would be jokes and pranks at each others expense. 'There were also bound to be several wits among the workers. This is probably one of the major reasons why many people looked for- ward to working at the factory in Spring. The jokes at East Point

I even involved an old ram at one time and a young hear at another time. During the time period(we ar:‘('lo)oking at)Cass Blaisdell, Fidele Cheverie, 'Sellens Jackson, Tory Fisher and. Ella Beaten seem-

ed to be "alWays in the middle of everything that: was on the go".58

The people I interviewed seemed to remember quite: a few of these