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and make fun'of him. If he ever saw a ghost

he'd find out what it was and all this. Him

and Lorne and Basil Morrison, they went one

night. Alfie was going with MacGuigan's sister. She Was working down at the factory here. One Saturday night about the time Alfie would. be

going home, they got a sheet and got it made in

a shape of a person and laid it down on the road and took a chunk of rope and put it across the should- ers and tied it on. Each of them went into the woods, one on each side of the road. They heard Alfie coming anyway. When he got up real close, they tightened the rope and the ghost raised up

in front of him. There was just one terrible screech I guess. Lorne said, "if it was in the daytime, his shadow would never have kept up

-to him". But even after that, Alfie would never stay at Earl's after dark. Home after dark. 75 He never mentioned ghosts again! '

Despite all of this, the work ethic was very strong. -The Workers had a strong sense of pride'and wanted to work. One person I interviewed noted that at that time the employees felt guilty if a‘ company went banhupt. They would blame themselves because they I ’ had-not worked hard enough. 76 One person noted with pride that "They seem to have a lot of problems with packs new that they didn't_ have then." 77 Most of the people I interviewed described certain . people as hard workers. Joe Conway'Was always noted as one of the best fishermen ever. He was supposed to have set a local record by landing 5,553 pounds of lobster in one day when, at the time, land— . ' 78

ing 12,000 pounds was an average season. Some comments which em—

~ phasize the work ethic are below:

You were supposed to keep your nose fairly well to the grindstone. 3e - it wasn't too bad though, I really enjoyed'it though. I liked working with lobsters. They do (the 79 people you work with make the job .

A funny thing about it, when Earl's was up