Interviewer:  And, you'd say, those little boys get mad and {NS}
863:  Fight?
Interviewer:  Huh?
863:  Fight.
Interviewer:  And yesterday they?
863:  Fought.
Interviewer:  And ever since they were small they have?
863:  Been fighting.
Interviewer:  Or they have?
863:  Or they have fought.
Interviewer:  And, say if, um, I had a question, you might say well I don't know the answer to your question you better go? What, somebody else?
863:  Ask someone else.
Interviewer:  So you'd say, so then I went and when?
863:  And I asked someone else.
Interviewer:  And you'd say you're the second person who's?
863:  Asked me.
Interviewer:  And, if it's cold enough to kill the tomatoes and flowers you'd say, last tight we had a?
863:  Freeze.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
863:  #1 Might #
Interviewer:  #2 Any #
863:  just a frost.
Interviewer:  And, you'd say it was so cold last night that the pipes?
863:  Froze.
Interviewer:  And?
863:  Expanded. They burst.
Interviewer:  And, you'd say, um, I was going to wrap them but the pipes had already?
863:  Burst.
Interviewer:  Because the water had?
863:  Frozen.
Interviewer:  And if it gets much colder the pipes will?
863:  Freeze.
Interviewer:  And?
863:  Burst.
Interviewer:  And if there is just a thin coating of ice on the lake, you'd say last night the lake?
863:  Well, froze over, or
Interviewer:  Do you ever say it's skimmed over or scaled over?
863:  No but then you realize that hardly ever happens around here sometimes I'll say there's a thin crust for instance on my uh, birdbath out there
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
863:  But you realize how little we get, and we don't, our lakes don't freeze over down here.
Interviewer:  {NW} And, If you had to get up and start work before the sun was shining you'd say we had to work before?
863:  Before dark or before light.
Interviewer:  Or before?
863:  Before sun up.
Interviewer:  And we worked until?
863:  Sundown.
Interviewer:  And you say
863:  Or dark.
Interviewer:  This morning I saw the sun.
863:  Rise.
Interviewer:  At six o'clock this morning the sun?
863:  Rose.
Interviewer:  Or the sun is already?
863:  Has already risen.
Interviewer:  And, you'd say, um, all night long the wind?
863:  Blew
Interviewer:  And the wind has?
863:  Blown.
Interviewer:  And the wind started to?
863:  Blowing. Or started to blow.
Interviewer:  And if the wind's from this direction you say that it's?
863:  From the North.
Interviewer:  And a wind
863:  That's a North wind, mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Half way between North and East would be a?
863:  Northeast wind.
Interviewer:  And North and West?
863:  Northwest.
Interviewer:  And West and South?
863:  Southwest.
Interviewer:  And East and South?
863:  Southeast.
Interviewer:  And if the wind had been {X}, just, gradually getting stronger, you'd say it was?
863:  If I were out sailing I'd say it was freshening.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
863:  But here I don't think I would say that, it's coming up here.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
863:  The wind is coming up.
Interviewer:  Why would you have a distinction?
863:  #1 Or rising? #
Interviewer:  #2 Is freshening sort of a #
863:  Well I think it's
Interviewer:  A nautical term?
863:  I think it's a, a term that I that I associate with, uh, nautical terms. I, I know that's the time that I use it when I'm out sailing.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
863:  And, and suddenly the wind comes up a little bit rises, I can say it's freshening.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
863:  I think it's a lot of, I think, you can think of it freshening out over the water.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.I
863:  I do.
Interviewer:  What if it's just the opposite of that, it would have been
863:  Dying down.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Any special, nautical terms for that?
863:  No, I think just dying down either way.
Interviewer:  And, you'd say, um, today is, um, Wednesday then, Tuesday was
863:  Yesterday.
Interviewer:  And Thursday is?
863:  Tomorrow.
Interviewer:  And if someone came here on a Sunday, not last Sunday, but a week earlier than that?
863:  Sunday before last.
Interviewer:  And if you was going to leave not next Sunday but
863:  Sunday after next.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay, do you ever say Sunday week?
863:  Well I think I'd say Sunday after next but, yes, I might say Sunday week it's a pretty well known term.
Interviewer:  For the future?
863:  For the future, not ever in the past.
Interviewer:  And if someone stayed from the first to the fifteenth, you'd say he stayed about?
863:  Two weeks.
Interviewer:  And talking about how tall this room is, this room's about?
863:  Eight feet tall.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay, and if a child?
863:  Or high or something.
Interviewer:  If a child just had a third birthday you'd say she's?
863:  Three years old. And,
Interviewer:  If you wanted to know the time you'd ask somebody?
863:  What time it is or what time is it?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and you'd look at your?
863:  Watch.
Interviewer:  And if it's midway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock you'd say it was?
863:  I would say it was seven thirty buy my grandmother always said half past.
Interviewer:  And if it is fifteen minutes later than that you'd say it was?
863:  Seven forty-five.
Interviewer:  Or?
863:  Maybe a quarter to eight.
Interviewer:  And, say a child is always running and telling on the other children you'd call him a?
863:  Tattle tale.
Interviewer:  Would you use that word about a grown person?
863:  No, probably a gossip.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear the word pimp used to mean tattle tale?
863:  No, that's always has to do with ladies of the night. {NW}
Interviewer:  And you'd say he moved here in nineteen sixty and he's lived here ever?
863:  Since.
Interviewer:  And you give someone a bracelet ad wanna see how it looks on her you'd say, well, go ahead and?
863:  Try it on.
Interviewer:  Or what it on?
863:  Put it on.
Interviewer:  And, you'd say you can't get through there because the highway department's got their machines and the road's all?
863:  Blocked.
Interviewer:  Or talking about them tearing it up? The road?
863:  Oh. Torn up. Under construction.
Interviewer:  And, you'd say that wasn't an accident he did that?
863:  On purpose
Interviewer:  And, you'd say she what him with a big knife?
863:  Stabbed him?
Interviewer:  And if teacher goes in a classroom and sees this funny picture on the blackboard she might ask who?
863:  Drew that.
Interviewer:  And if you want to lift something heavy like a piece of machinery up on the roof you could use pulleys, locks and a rope to?
863:  To, lift it up.
Interviewer:  Do you ever say to hoist it or
863:  #1 Yes, hoist. #
Interviewer:  #2 heist it? #
863:  Not heist but hoist. {NS}
Interviewer:  Say if, um, something happened on this day last year, you'd say it happened exactly?
863:  A year ago.
Interviewer:  And, you'd say nineteen seventy-three was last year, nineteen seventy-four is?
863:  Is this year.
Interviewer:  And, {NW} if you had been doing something for a long time you'd say I've been doing that for quite a?
863:  Oh, for quite a while.
Interviewer:  And now could you start counting slowly to fifteen?
863:  One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
Interviewer:  And the number after nineteen?
863:  Twenty?
Interviewer:  And twenty-six?
863:  Twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  And after twenty-nine?
863:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  And thirty-nine.
863:  Forty.
Interviewer:  And sixty-nine?
863:  Seventy.
Interviewer:  And ninety-nine.
863:  One hundred.
Interviewer:  And nine hundred ninety-nine?
863:  A thousand.
Interviewer:  And ten times one hundred thousand?
863:  Is that a million?
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-kay. #
863:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And if there is people standing in line the person at the head of the line is the?
863:  The first in line or the head of the line.
Interviewer:  Behind him is the?
863:  Second.
Interviewer:  And keep going.
863:  Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh,
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
863:  Twelfth. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you'd say sometimes you feel you get your good luck just a little at a time but your bad luck comes all?
863:  In threes.
Interviewer:  Or it comes all?
863:  At once.
Interviewer:  And, if you got twenty bushels to the acre last year and this year you got forty you'd say this year's crop was exactly?
863:  Twice. Last years.
Interviewer:  Okay, or? What as good, was as
863:  Twice as good or?
Interviewer:  And now what you
863:  Double.
Interviewer:  Okay, can you name the months of the year?
863:  January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, Septemb- September, October, November, December.
Interviewer:  And the days of the week?
863:  Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Interviewer:  What does Sabbath mean?
863:  The seventh day. But it, actually, under those circumstances you start with Monday. Sunday is, is the Sabbath for me.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
863:  But of course it was the Sabbath for the, for the Jewish Nation where it started the seventh day, you'll rest, and that was Saturday.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you meet someone during the early part of the day, what would you say as the greeting?
863:  Good morning. {NW}
Interviewer:  How long does morning last?
863:  Until noon.
Interviewer:  And then you have?
863:  Good afternoon.
Interviewer:  How long does afternoon last?
863:  Probably until supper time. {NW}
Interviewer:  And then what do you have?
863:  Good evening. And good night means goodbye, you know.
Interviewer:  How long does evening last?
863:  Probably until twelve, midnight.
Interviewer:  And if you were leaving someone at about eleven o'clock in the day would you say anything if you were leaving?
863:  You mean, beside, goodbye.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, do you ever say good day?
863:  No. I really never say good day I've heard it but it is just not anything I've ever really said.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And, Talking abut the weather you'd look up at the sky and say I don't like the looks of the black?
863:  Clouds.
Interviewer:  And on the day when the sun is shining and there aren't any clouds?
863:  It's a Blue Bird day.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
863:  Blue sky day.
Interviewer:  And just the opposite kind of day?
863:  Overcast. Cloudy.
Interviewer:  Say if the clouds are getting thicker and thicker and you think it's going to rain or something in a little while, you'd say the weather is?
863:  The weather is getting worse. It's going to rain.
Interviewer:  Do you ever say it's changing or
863:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 Gathering or # Hmm?
863:  The clouds are gathering, the weather isn't getting gathering, the clouds are gathering, the weather is changing or we're having a change in the weather. A change in the weather usually means something like from cold to hot or hot to cold.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
863:  Perhaps, from really clear day to cloudy day. You know or to a storm #1 gathering #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
863:  storm clouds gathering.
Interviewer:  And it had been clouding and the clouds pull away you say it looks like it's finally going to?
863:  Clear up.
Interviewer:  And what you were telling me a few minutes ago, the old fashioned name for living room?
863:  Parlor.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And a whole lot of rain that just suddenly comes down?
863:  Downpour.
Interviewer:  Any other names?
863:  Gully washer.
Interviewer:  And if there's thunder and lightning?
863:  It's a thunder shower.
Interviewer:  And if it was raining but not real heavy, you'd call it a?
863:  Light shower.
Interviewer:  Any other term?
863:  Drizzle maybe.
Interviewer:  What's the difference?
863:  Sprinkle if it's just beginning and doesn't ever do much.
Interviewer:  What's the difference between a drizzle and a shower?
863:  A drizzle usually comes down very, very lightly for a long time. And a shower generally has pretty good sized raindrops in it.
Interviewer:  What about real fine rain?
863:  That's probably a drizzle or a, or a fine mist perhaps
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
863:  #2 but # When it's drizzling it usually finely mists all day long.
Interviewer:  And if you get up in the morning and can't see across the road you'd call that a?
863:  Probably a fog.
Interviewer:  And a day like that, you'd call a?
863:  Foggy day.
Interviewer:  And if no rain comes for weeks and weeks you say you're having a?
863:  Drought.
Interviewer:  And you mentioned, um, something about writing, have you, written many short stories or?
863:  Only a few and I've, I've not published.
Interviewer:  You just do it for?
863:  For fun. {NS} Sometimes because the Spirit moves me. {NS}