I made a big drag sleigh out of wood and we hauled it up to my yard piece by piece, with a farm tractor. So we had it in my yard, and I turned to Frank Lewis, he’s quite a guy he’s the one making the fortune, and the sign in my yard. He had all the signs painted; he could do any- thing. I think the most we got the first year was less than fifty dollars. (What were all the other fisherpeople saying?) Oh they were tormenting me terrible. Oh my heavens I got an awful rat- tling over the Marco Polo. I was happy about it. I enjoyed what I was doing anyway”.

“We went back down, Frank had said to me, Tommy you know that I seen that other lovely little anchor. We’ve got to go and get it. I said sure, we’ll go down and get it. So we had no prob— lem with it. We got it. We got a lot of brass pins. I had seven or eight altogether, about two feet long, with a head on one end. I gave them away and don’t know where I sold any. One fel- low in Halifax got one, I can’t think of his name and he made a beautiful bullet, and he put a cap on it and everything, my heaven’s it was beautiful, oh I just gave it to him. We got water taps and we got a lot of valuable stuff, but what happened, I lost it all. There was only one thing I wanted off the Marco Polo. You see there was no running water on the Marco Polo. There wouldn't be in them days, but they had to carry water. I had what they call a “three-way tap”. I’ve never seen one since, and I never heard tell of one. (Do you still have it?) No! I wish to God I did”.

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