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There was no first names like the first names now. We weren't allowed that. It would be either Mr and Mrs, or uncle or aunt or grandparents. Everybody was an uncle, aunt or grandparents down there, but we was no connection whatsever. We weren't allowed to call them what we call them nowadays.
And before, now what happened before my day I can't tell you much about that. This is today, this is my living, the time I was brought up down in Minudie.
But you had a lot of wool. We had to wear wool, wool. Everything was wool. You had to it was so cold. Mum knit all our socks, stockings, pants, mittens, hats and everything. Mother did all her own knitting and sewing. Mum was a good sewer, sewed for us all, knit for us all. Moccasins, I've worn mocasins too. With lots of woollen socks in them to go to school. Of course, sometimes they'd be kind of damp and wet when you get there. Some cold, my goodness it was cold. Our winters now are like summer when I went there and our winters set in very early. October, lots of times in October we had snow right through to next June, you might as well say.