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Clip Title: "Building the stage every spring."
Length: 1:22 min.
Credit: Wilson Hayward
Year: 1994

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Wilson Hayward: We used to have a stage on the bank -- you know, he was there all the time, you know a stage, boarded up ... we used to have wood longers, what they call longers -- you get long sticks of wood, small long sticks of wood like a rail, and you put down for to walk on ... Well, it would be better than board and that because you tip over a puncheon tub of old pickle and it would run on down through ... it -- wll in a hour that would be dried off and that... So then we have another stage we build out every spring. Put out two sticks, you put posts under them you know, and then you put those small longers, you know, on, you walk down, you go on out, you go out in the water. Then you put your stage out there, then a shed for to- so you can hoist your fish up so the sun wouldn't play at it, you know -- now you have your splitting table there, and your puncheon to wash your fish in, puncheon tub, drawed up the water out of the stage head ... have a hole in your stage, lower your bucket down ... bring it up, and fill up your puncheon, it's all clean water -- you split your fish in the puncheon [split fish goes into one?]. You have a dip net, dip it out, put it in your tub and carry it up to your stage -- your salter would be saltin' down there...

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Clip Title:  "Describing a pew."
Length:  36 sec.
Credit:  Wilson Hayward
Year: 1994

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Wilson Hayward: What we used to use down there was a pew -- one prong on it! We get it made -- we make it -- and he come up this way [describing shape] and he had sturt on him -- and we get a stick and we seize that into the stick, pew, you know ... one prong -- you could stab it into the head of the fish, you know, cause we used to be very careful, you know, especially when we was splitting fish -- you'd only prong it in the head that's all, you wouldn't prong it in the body because if you prong it in the body you leave a bloody mark there... a black mark in the fish. So when you pew it in the head, the head'd be throwed away.

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Clip Title:  "Going down north to set up a fishing station at Cape Bauld."
Length: 1:16 min.
Credit: Bob Trimm
Year: 1993

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Bob Trimm: We fished on the land -- we carried a house down -- call it a shack -- call it what you like, we lived in it ... Freight that down there -- pay the freight on that to get it down, freight all the flakes we had to dry it on down there -- stage ... first year we took all that with us ...

Mark Ferguson: You took a house, a stage and flakes.

BT: Yuh. And it took us five year to get it paid out [paid off]... Then the sixth year we had no expense, nothing, number one voyage of fish, 2 and a 1/2 dollars a quintal, $2.50 a quintal -- now my wages was $60 [laughs]

MF: That was before you got your winter supplies?

BT: ...That was what it was -- I give it to me father -- his 60 and my 60 paid the expenses for the summer -- what do you do for the winter? Went back to 6 cents a day [the dole rate] -- what choice did we have?

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Clip Title: "Money was scarce -- hard to scrape up even a penny."
Length: 49 sec.
Credit: Bob Trimm
Year: 1993

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Mark Ferguson:   Do you ever uh ... to get back to that old Merchant system there -- did you ever see money ever -- much??

Bob Trimm: [snorts] No sir, we seen no money, no, no, no. That wasn't in the question, money, for God's sake. [laughs] I'll tell you, I can remember now -- I'm not tellin' no lie, I'm not jokin -- havin' ten cents in me pocket 'til the bugger turned black with dirt, waitin', tryin' to get a copper to get a pack of `Old Bugler' [tobacco]. That's the truth!! One penny! You couldn't get the damn penny -- you had to pay 'en, but try to get the penny if you could ... I'm telling it like it was, like I had it anyway -- and every person around here had it the same, 'part from a couple ...

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Clip Title: "How payments were made: 'IOU so and so.' "
Length: 53 sec.
Credit: Bob Trimm
Year: 1993

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Bob Trimm:... but now if you went in, cut a hundred sticks of sale wood, and sold it to the merchant in here, he'd give you a piece- a old piece of brown paper he'd tear off, ``IOU so and so'' ... twas only good at his shop ... you couldn't get no tobacco cause he didn't sell it .... We used to smoke the Old Bugler -- that was the cheapest -- 11 cents! They could it easy had it ten, made it even, no! Had to be eleven ... and not a penny to find...