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portashFrightened by imaginint people seen are ghosts. (Southern Head Harbour area ??) H. ...And I was fourteen year old that February, but in January I...I leaved one night after...a big mile one Sunday night, I went down to Cassandra (??). I walked out to the...from the camp out to Cassandra (??), roughtly about...BETWEEN three and four miles. Harry, he was...no,Harry wasn't out there then. Harry was in with Kiel (??) Langdown,(who) belonged to Northern Arm up here, just across FROM (IT). But I went out to Cassander (??). And I spend Sunday out there, you know, wear away the time, and ...so by and by it got dark. I didn't trouble; I wasn't afraid: nothing like that. (TALL...??) comin' through a cut-hole OVER (??)(AND ANY?) big birch, you know, and... Anyway the wind veered out in the north and the...got frosty, AND start[ED] to rent an' crack an' blow a gale - AND... after a mile now. And we come on up...now, there was a tramway coming this way, and a "portash" (portage) come this way.Well we come in, was a ole camp buile one time, which...Langdown runned it.And Langdown shot Lyver there, one o' the Lyvers - belonged to Waldron's Cove, see? Well now our "portash" goin' into our camp come right across that doorway,see. This is the way to come in (IN) the night now.No no I'm not...that didn't take no (e)ffect to me about comin' in there because Lyver was shot,see,a bit in the word.But how Lyver come to get shot: there was bears around, see? And the foreman said to 'em ...he'd made or...give orders for no man to go out (O') the bunkhouse in the night. And....he put... pails in the bunkhouse...(FOR IF) A man got sick and wanted to use a pail or anything, they'd get up, we'll say, and...but not go out of the bunkhouse! So but anyway Lyver went out and got up around, got up in the woods, and made out 'twas a bear. And of course now Langdown was goin' to shoot the bear. So he got up in the woods, and when he heard un up in the woods of course he went out and he seen the two...the two eyes, see, and he let (it) riff (ie rip??) (OR let drift??), I suppose, and shot Lyver and OVER [reverse] killed him. Well, NOW, OF course he shot Lyver and that was that! BY JEES, So... anyway, our "portash" come in acros the...right across,we'll say, where this Lyver was shot to. And I come on in the night, and dodged on, AND just after I...(A) few feet after I'd passed across this door-place, by God I beholds two men; on ahead o' me! And I suppose every hair went up just as straight as the wire, on the head! ('CAUSE) I was frightened to death! Now alright! Lyver had me now! See, I was it (eat?)! Jees, whether I'm eat or no, I got to go! I'm goin' till I'm eat, anyhow!" And I suppose I kept back here, see, I slacked my speed now, and when that...they two would go round that turn, I'd speed up TO (TILL??) I, you know, (I'D) bring 'em open again. I seen 'em; went on. By and by I THOUGHT (TO MYSELF) "Well that can't be nobody! It must be somebody belonged to the camp out somewhere!" FOR I... (you know), made myself believe, you know, 'twas.. everything was alright. (FINALLY ANYWAY) I went on. But I keep ...a long.. nice distance behind, you know, let them go on ahead o' me! So anyway by and by here they went on, and I suppose they went on in the camp, and that's where they did go, and I went on into the camp, and they don't know WHEREVER I seen anybody yet or no! I never told nobody after I got in,no. THAT WAS twelve o' clock in the night I went home, in the night, well... I had a uncle there, and he was uneasy 'bout me; he was goin' to get up now and come an' look for me. He thought I was gone somewhere, (ER) mislaid somehow But I never... I never met nobody, but now...I thought Lyver had me! Yeah. But that's the 'magination o' people, isn't it? 'Tis only imagination, you know, because that man was shot there. But why should that man bother me? Nah! Foolishness! ...... ...(like) you said, sir, just...just you got uneasy, just 'cause he flashed in my MIND... and when I seen tho(se)...if I hadn't seen those two people, I don't suppose ever HE'D come in my mind, see? No. I just went on, that's all I troubled about it. But a lot of (THOSE) old stuff like that is a...a good bit of it's imagination.J.WIDDOSONNot usedNot usedWithdrawnreverse side of P_1685