incidents, some of which appear below. ; I was short and those tables were fairly high.

Somebody made a little plateform for me to stand

on. One morning I went out to work and I went to.

the table and there was a whole bunch of tails ready Vfor me to split. I jumped on the board and the board was greased and I went under the table. 59

Cass was also good at nailing their aprons to the wall. Another favorite past time they had was to get a rope ‘- and fray it out and hang a tail on someone and then askéo' them if they could switch their tail.

I guess they did. Wasn't there a funny story about nails put into the cleaving block. And this Cass Blaisdell came to work in the morning with nails all in the cleaving block- Whenever he came on with his knife, he just banged it onto those nails. A cross man for a while. 61

_/E(A cleaving knife had to be so sharp for the person cleaving. Banging such a knife onto nails could slow you down by impairing the knife).{

I remember when they were building a shed onto the cookhouse.’ Helen and Gertie's mother she came up.

They had to take her up with them. There was no baby- sitter there. Cass and Gerald Johnston, Geraldwas a

tall man and desperate then. He always had a pair of overalls. The legs with this much slack in them

(gesturing quite a bit of slack). You know the way

you'd be sitting on a roof, kinda half lying down.

Cass got Gerald with the overalls half lying over the

edge of a board and put a bored down and jammed it

between them. With the overalls between the board

on and the one he was nailing on. He nailed it on

there solid and there was no Way Gerald could get 62 out of there. He couldn't even get the overalls off.

I knew Cass alright. He was always a harbinger of

Spring. You would see Cass coming with a piece of

pipe to get threaded and you knew the factory was

open. Cass was a remarkable character. Hefd come ‘ up there in Spring and take the boiler apart.... - 1 He was quite knocky you know. one spring he landed J over with a piece of pipe and I asked, "What were

you doing all winter Cass?" ."Going to college",

Cass said. I said, "going to college?" He was in 63 Georgetown jail for making shine! ,

After the work was done both the workers and. the fisher-

men felt pretty tired. V There would be nothing formally going on in