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"Is des nicht sin =say Awed*? Ja, des tat yin orasy.
Sure I think they die. Why not? Look. The boat 20 no good. They
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no good. 1.416tAttr--iionlet-41011,01p6 Illibt4Mniridmrmmot4gOod
fishermen. Ther-eoe 04,4 fishermen at all. Me. For fortyllve pore I go
out in boats. I go in ihips. Sail. Steen. Massa. Skiffs. But that
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afternoon veoltbolbget out. Any fool w get out. But Rudy and
that Carter kid, they' i's soteti They're so God -damned smart they know
more than #hofishermen that go out every day in the year, more tan me,
more than Api Cowet Cu*. They see the storm flags. They ass Vbe surf.
5ut whet they sqy? They soy, "What the heIlio They soy, 0Ths fie:heroin
are a bunch of Ad omen. 4011 go out off Halibut Point, get our troll,
maks fire, teomaybe fifteen dollars to get drunk an tomorrow!" Well, they
got drunk all right. Drunk an salt meter. ROT gone, Carter kid gone,
little dog gone.
Oh, I know how they felt. Iyoung once too. My father say, wfou work
hard, Gor, here on farm with me and brother. When I get old, brother get
farm, but we give sans land to you. uild hole, build barn, overyv,ing
all right V' All right, sure. got for mei That was near fiesimgborg, my
father's farm. aaleingborg big, city, tan times big as Gloucester, bigger
then !:Alem and Lynn all at once, almost thirty thouotnd peoplo. I go to
Balsingborg, I and abhor feller, work mart faro. We look for work there.
You work for father,
time long time get aonething. Right now get
work and lotto U. 4ork somebody else' get% dollar. But we delft get
work in Halsingborg, other feller and me. Ile fifteen then, he's mote
sevonteen, iie stay there two, three leeks, other feller go home. I go
to Stan:khan, two, three weekq, there nothing too. I have good time
there, tough. Good people, "Give me eoacthtng to eat?* *Sum Come
home with met we feed you, give you some pennies." Than I est job. All
of a sadden I get job on ship. Big ship. Sim -masted ship for Hamburg.
And that we.. funny thing, too. You look at:Jap some time, ses Atlantic
WOULD- 13ig, hUh? See what thay can Baltic Gegen. Hot so big, huh? Like
?addle. But ask anybody. Much worse storms in 1ittle Baltic Ocean.
And we getiddir atom, too. 4y God1 A month to get to Hamburg. I
thought sure honest I'm deaden through* Ae get there all right. That
;;aptainl He Seede-follert 114, strong, yellow beard. He laughed at storm.
He Mom moo too. Tow," be said, "you are smart boy. You learn quick and
you work hard. Sailing is 04 boot thing in VIC world for man to do, and
Swede -feller best sailor in all the world. When we get to HaMburg you stay
an ship. I think we go an big trips two, three year. Than we get back -1:,
Sweden maybe you Captain, toor So I stay with ahipit burg and right
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off we go to 5cetland, to Cardif 1, ctl.i for ooal and we go than to Liver
p i ool that's in Scotland too for cotton goods. Cod, how we load up1
Then we go around thePvcrld. e go everywhere. SObastopel, the*oapital of
luissiat Aome that's in Italy then we go down around Cape and uo to
*Liras, that's in India. Thiy got canal nob %nom and horses pUI1 taile
ships through, but no canal than, have to 7c) around.
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la that Madras Assam, unload mtring inilhoat, and wait for nsw71
oargo. We *its month, sixes**, then/Captain got talegreats go to
Australia gat sheep. Gar doesn't like that. My father's got sheep. I
know sheep. They stink. All the time thay stink. But sheep ain't all we
,ot in Australia Wa got smoothing you never heard of. 3o'nething nobody
never heard of. We gat what they. call kangasool All necks that ganetsoo.
Th. Captain didn't &at any telegram says *Ship kangasoo." Like hall
Captain meet nan there in Australia. Mhn say, "Here. I got kangasoo.
Gotta go ran Francisco in Amorica to pat in park. You takes get a thousand
dollare." Captain say, "Sure." He don't now what the hall is kangasoo.
Llutaann MM2 he find outl
iVe already sail maybe e1even, twelve o'clock. Down comae man. Bets
not
got kangasoo. And he's got pper CaMin s4ned. Captain iloeset-know
clAncA
w do hat to Awn does, tlx,uh. He Just holds upppaper. We get row
Chat Auatralia until four, five o'clock. We /rave to take forty., fifty esoop
ant of hold, lash sheep on de*. Break open deck hatch,. pet,hottom of
kangasoo in hold. Wee e. got ae7en masts. Kangasoo mast all aty himself.
She stink wore* than at hoes. Xangasoo otink louder than sheep:
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,-Allge we get to Psealreanoisco. No, kangasoo dimooket die. Jest six,
eight of the sheep, God, that Captain glad to have empty ship once more.
Priot‘y soon off he mo with load of silver for China.
Mel Hal, no. I don't go to Chlma. Wk, you say thvt# I never go
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my lifj I stay San Freno re, I oot job. I take oars kangasoo.
make good mow than. Fifteen dollars seek4 I feed him, put hose
an bin, rMlt hose everywhere, ovary wek fifteen dollar. Other time I go
stay with 'Irede asilor-fellers walk arcuA have beer, talk old country,
sometime ery. Rough city 4UM raxgico. Evcybod fight, BVerybody drink,
everybody fight. I fight too. There is Awes down 1111tai.frcnt call him Annals
where lots Swede -fellers are. Anna fine wr-man, Swede woman. Beautiful =man,
Six feet sous eare4 Wsigh egybe three hemdred. Strong as horse. We go there
all time joke with Anna, drink, sing Swede songs, all about time Swedes have
mars liek Wormegians, and about war lisk DenearAteres lick French, liek
a
Inglish. Good time everybody. .AmoVs beet place all San ?remise*.
Then Anna the die. She go ,:yut some morning get hams get beefs get fish.
Coos hoes home area full everythtng when along comes teem arounti corner. Anna deet-
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On team, Feller an team don't- see Anna. Anna die.
We have big funeral nest day, every Swede -feller in San Preneisso there.
Luthmran minister there, fine fellers make ow?rybody cry. Feller from Swedish
king there, too. Bring flowers, make talk, Anna's husband dead back in Sweden
brave feller, good soldier. Best funeral I ever see.
But when I get bask that afternoon to parks bees styes 01,0410,14 Gor.
Teu all througOL det4t1 feed kangasoo today. To A dalt put hoes on him.'
I tell Wm about Anna, about Anna's funerals about Anna's husbands breve soldiers
but boss say, *Toe bad, Ger. No more job. Other feller ake oars kangesoo
now. He take oars bears too end He give oe Ars runct meek's Pin too.
I got meybe teenty-ftres thirty dol ar.
Beek to mater -front I go see ootTle_ismede fellers* tell him no more
They -very sorry, eeys Mips we go c -et drinks hare So we go Bet not
to Annals. Anna's no more. As most couple more Swede fellers we go Irish
plats*. We have beer, Good boors we talk. About no more jays. About no more
Anne. About Sweden and poor Swede -fellers no far *ley. We start sing. We
etart sing good emu. AU about mar. Seede-falIers lick Nerwegians, lick
Denearkers, link French. All of auddee one Swede -feller start gong about
de -fellers liek Iriih. I ddfiief7sing that sox?. I isnot know that song.
irieh.fellers in there they diimpot7Iike that song 9wede.fellere lidk nobody
that day. 4beviet licked himself.
11411, says Swede...feller, where we go nee es go no more 'r1& ago°.
Bell with IA*, Planet And no more Swode.,Olade left* "I tell you what," says
feller, "sego einem place. Not nisch Now. Nice girls*" IfLike heIl*,eays
Aol-
other feller. "Chinele no geed. They gat keine* I dentt want Lutheran min.
tater come make nice talk about me." nut we go Chinese Aide jnet same* Fine
place. Big pictures. Music. Good beer. All other Swede -fellers but ne go
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vith Chinese girls. I stay downistairs drink beer. I de -'1, like 0.4inees gilts.
Small, very small, Vt:ry funny. I drink beer, Chinese feller asks mt.
I play game? I a* what kind, game? lit -tell me swills gams I never heard eft
some game nobody ewer beard of I guess* Alt I aNys **hat the hell? Jab ell
gone% Anna all gone. Ikbodte like Spmde feller. :ure, go ahead. se nlays"
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I den0it know yet at Mad, ORMO 26 Ltt.tle blocks wood, biv died* Chinese
feller, good feller, be xemp poor*. Soirtime he may, *Oh, oh, you win," and
other tines, 0,0h, oh, I win."
Bimehy two three hours other _wede-felle, cone downstairs, my %Dame
on, Gorse. peke go back ship*" I tell talinese feller l can't )lay AMMO no
mere. he may all right, add up score, .ive me hundred fifty two dollars. First
time I ewer win money my life, Jnly tie. feller may, "Come on back.
9008 mews.
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I denAtliley same more though. We get out in street, Swede -feller
Bey, "Well, Gar, what you do know, hare No mere kenos's° job, what you do?*
I shake my- head. I sky, 'I don't know, I got little money. Neybe I wait my
captain comae baek, then we go Sweden.* Swede -feller laugh, Mew you know he
over 'come heats herr? You over sail eteamp-ship ,or?" I tell hilm, °No. I
never did sail atom -ship. He laugh again, uThat's all right,' be say. 'Ton
eeee with me. We sail tomm.tght, go New Taft. If mate aek you anythingiorg
may sure. Ton ht". So that's what 1 did. Amd.thatle=how=Egeeigt.
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In New lark Idemr. kva ?that to do.
-a ib: I make up ir mind I have enough of pea. That
is hard life, I eeyvtbiFleat All jihi-time you work, then you come ashore
II -dye so
You spend your money, hack to sea again. But at can I do? ether
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trade. AU I do back in Sweden in aaleingbarg is just a little farming and
that I4Ornot like, either. $o I an pretty sad. The cx•ly things r can do I
41r604-vant to do. By gosh,slong timeItell youI-do. not eat. For almost
moSth 0*, only time I eat is when 3wede feller he give -sale five pennies for
glaae of bier, lhonI get beer I can get bread ard ham and herring andiked.
fish eyes. Always I go to same place. To Gorman llacs6 That eating with the,
beer is what they awIl 10,free leach. They hare better free lunch in trIrish
place. But, I 40Lnot 1414iikims Irish place. ;Se Irish are *rosy. After a while
the airman faller calls me, he says, °Rey, Swede -f0114*', how is it, hey/ All
the time you came ins just buy one beer and you eat like you bay tent Bow is
it, hey?' I tall Ids. I tell that cerium feller. 'I got no job,* I tell hir.
*I gat no money. Only money I hive is when Swede -feller give me five penniee
for beer.' °Neil,* *aye that CMrsen filler, °I give you job, harrI Better you
do some wort round here for what you eat than eat all you oat and do not lark."
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So he 4ves ae broom, that German, and he tells me I an the porter. The=
Nee *Are that saloon is on what they call tille Third Avenue.
In New Tork everything is different, They Occnot have Curtis nreet
and Granite Street and Phillips Avenue. NO4 They have nesters. This-plag,
The- Place where I got r', -nn is
on 99th Street, It is big old house, and 09 man who has it is,taresy Presoak
feller. Y, he is. Be is likeSVOMILn, that man. There are flour, five, six,
floors with four, five reams everyone. psi French feller he lives down cellar.
All he does is go ar-und house in big atockingslike, scrubbing and sweeping all
tAiA time. )18 gmor goes anywhere. Never has think. But he has nice clean
house like Swede =man just the same.
That house is everythI7e, He must have somebody in everyone of theme
rooms or he cry like beby. Sometimes one feller he get sidle in room after he
Aa drunk and when 'trench feller see he hit his head against the wall. I else
a lot that army French feller. i not go to lAsd until eight oleloek in t3A
morning and Ao. German feller he 060 rlot want to see me until nine O'clock at
night. If I come in saloon when I an not working thAFJONC not let me'have
the free lunch. They liP1 not even let me buy a glais of beer if I sezy I -will
not have any of the lunch. The German feller and the bar -tenders, they yell,
*Get out of here, you cregy Fwiedel"
Pretty soon that is what the cunt:mars call me, too. I have to go
arouod all the time in that lace an Third Avenue cleaning everything ep and
sometimes eten I it to a corner there will be two or three fellers there and
they will yell, "Get out of hero, you crazy Fleecier Some of themeeeseput an
into sang they sing all the time like pp Swedes sing about *Iwo with t*
tonnerrkers fellers and everybody. I could not tell you all abut tptsong
those German fellers sing but one night they it me into it. They sing, *Is
des nieht sin crazy aweds. Ja„ dam ist sin crazy Swede," Like that.
4ielnot mind 44e5b is not very Ilard. I only have to clean up until
one olcioek in lite mornings then all I have to do is stay around in to0 front
of that place until eight o'clock and be like)t feller who is policeman. But
one night while I am staying it front like that some feller I guess breaks
'window in beaks lei Viso German feller comes he says there are ten maybe twelve
oases of igi whiskey all gone. He says why )4 I not stop that feller -etc comes
in? he says I am oragy Swede and I am not to put my nose in that nlace on
Third Avmnue again cr he will kill ME.
Wells I go back to that laoe of that French feller where I stay and I
think that German feller is one crazy fellers all rights herr: ant that French
filler be is much more crazy. He is there at 00 door and he has mr sailor
bag and all ir clothes and things. H. throws them at ne and he sayws *That
other Seeds feller come in here last night and kill himself all over my nice
back roes. You get the hill out and youltsnot come becks you crazy ftelela
I 0# not come back, too, to the cragy irench feller. I go down to wster-front
and I zeretSwede-feller he says "You got any moneys barn?" I say I got a little
eoney. Swede feller says !You come to me to that Rockport places herr, there
is plenty job in the quarry. So I come.
I first come Aockports almost forty yars gone. uuch drink thenslikh
tight. Most Anerisumme woz1 quarries then, some irighs then lots Needs boilers
comes some Finns, vow Italians. Some Swede fellers like me spell; good English
been this country long times been Lew York, been Boston. Some Swede fellers,
bets speak no knglishs been nebodywherel They gat etf train Rockport* all Alone
Immetime maybe know somebody, gat brothers got cousins got feller same towns
next fare maybe. Sometime know nobody. No ilnglishs knew nobody. Got
sign tied ans like on fits says !Rockport Granite Gompagy, aockports likesachn-
setts, United States America.' Some those fellers work hard, learn nnaish
wick, make friend, hippy. Other those fellers not so good jOh, not learn
Baia& very good, sad, nobody like. Ilrink a lot, those Sellars. Figbt a lot
thole fellers. Sometimes people tell some those fellers get drank, venting*
home Seeden, go mak night, fell in quarry, get drowned, die. 1--doelt-knome
N2 Swede fellar.--1-1040
len I first come Rotkport ewe other Swede feller friend mins New
York. We speak English smart, got little money, go Node women,s boarding how*
down Yorrest Street. Come in town one day, get Orunk that night, oelsbrates
go Rockport Granite Compaey office, says 'tie want job, herr?" Boss Key, *Go
to work." tart right in. e work seven to twelve mornIng, one to six after-
noon, First taw put me wor living on barge. Lot business paring then.
Send caving everywhere in world ten, aoCKoort uite Gixnnaey get ehole lot
that business, too. They pay me twelve dfIlqrs we I first go work there.
Seoond day I work feller come ar,:unia say, "You join Union, ham?" 1sgr, "I
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doalt know." But other Swede feller cekore with me N:e. York say, "Sure he join
unln. I join union, too." So I join union, I belong union all time I week
Rockport Granite company maybe twenty-five year. After big strike no more
Rockport Uranite Compaey. I still belong Union. '4ork other companies, Bey
View, Laneeville, tiU got my book. aeybe tomorrow feller come me, sky,
"Hey, 0072 got job for you. Six months job quarry. Good mey. Good boss. NO
union." I tell him g0 hell. All old Swede quarry fellers tell him go hell.
Finn fellers, *Mar, Anybody cut stone Cape Ann can't have salb jObs can't
go round say, wrou work. he work. Other feller work." Got go union, =WU
gbre him fellers works union iviars, union pay. Too many unions though. Quarry.
workers untm, I belong St no -cutters union. Pavingetutters union, got national
office down Rockport. Sometime stone -cutters may, 90y, that's my Job." Pav-
ing cotters day, !Hoy, that's or job." Have strike, Not union a;ainet boom.
Union against union, No good.
Fumy thing, quarry -workers al1 union men. ?tillers work down tool
company 80112, qoarryoworkee, lots them, brothers naybe, no in. 7cork like
hell. In summer hot in front those forges. In winter still hot, outside cold.
Get hurt clank, either. Lots fellers down tool compooy lose ringers in forge.
Finn feller over Lanesville used clone round now 6011 Dear Workor, he lost three,
four flagers in hammsr come down. I 'mid not vent work there. Make tools.
All kinds big tool& Make wheels I donit-kmarmhat film. Make *rte airpaane
fectory. Some fillers soy make thing go round that Lindbergh Olane first time
down there. Dean rollers run fool Cooperw. Brothers, Lindley Dean one brother.
Sail boat races. Other brother live Magmlia. You know -what feller told me?
Feller tolo me that ;Jean feller brother got wife she die bath -tub. What he do?
Make gold bath tub. 5tiaa-opol-1 1--dorin-Eiver:
4 have wife ono*, six, seven year. la(111Cnow that, harr? Ours,
so :Lug gone sometime 4 thiOk I dATt know that, too, I am in Tioeloort no more
six montbei get married Lutheran Churen young Ss girl oome over here get job.
She oat job Boston all right maid rich family, come down here sometime see
friends Laredo family, we get married. She no good 17 tire. rairainn4.-,1‘kootaba4
Wog- Lots fillere got wife no goo!!)say ate good. Lots feller gut mire good...,
treA her no good. I got 'site no good say she no vood treat her go.
have her long. Just six, seven poor. She pretty, that wife, but no good for mife.
I like lots boys, oirls. She like no boys, girl. all. After I get wife, me nova
copy hoes. 1)oolt have we company houss yo don't like. Move anywhere.
Compaoy can't make :30VO company h000e. Union won't let, Dot good house, don't
coet no more. Don't have trade company tore, either. 114000trade eompauy store.
Crazy Swede
Coot little more, bet otuff better. more company stare. No more company
No more wife. Compagy send teom around every day darter, got order. Lots
teams, lots horses an Gape I come hers. No buses then, too. trest care, go
all around Cape. Sometine go Sunday for ride. In summer, no sides in summer,
all look front seats, conductor vaik around sides, get money.
I tell you vIor I live oompemy house, trod* comparly atom Sometime
comps:log fire fellers. Not for onion AKM4 Not for poor Job. Jost no business.
You live oen house, rent sooebody's house, trade somebody', atom, mgyhe
any fire you. They do not get hurt. But live company house, trade sompoor
atom, fire you, don't get rent, don't get trade. That my vibe abs dontt like
be ir wife. I don't think she like be anybody's life. All tine she soy this
no good, that no good, no clothes, no peoplo, no go someShere. One time abs
go oomelhore all right!, I come home one night she gone. Feller soy the go
off with fisherman over Oismoester. I don't know. All ritht abs don't come
batik, One time nine, ten rare after I drink beer place in Gloucester feller
say me, *See that f011er, Gorl That feller over there filler run off your
vife, I lodk at that feller, look at me, 4. don't say nothing, harri
After that wife she Co tly sister, her husband come over from old country
with as, They got two boys. Nben they come got one boy. Nilo. Pratt)?
soon get another boy. Henry. Thot husband oy sister. Nice fellow. Quiet.
No fight. No drink. Just smote, give my sister all his now. Very happy
that husband my sister. Paler say him, "Hey, you think you ever go bask?"
he ewe 'Sure. Then they build a bridget" Very rangy. He don't go beak, but.
No. He pavino-cutter. Good paving -cutter. Paving -cutter ShoOld wear Balk.
Paring -cutter doesn't wear mosk. Compaoy got. Lot dust. Stone dust. Get
consumption. Company got masks, but paring -cutter dontt vear. That bmahand
my sister got consumption, Gantt work. Spit blood. Give up jOb pawing-outter.
Roosevelt don't know, harrt Maybe soon that Salt netall be President, bare
Everybody likaa. It kmcmram. Still don't know American Xing. Aek.
47, *Who King, hare" Feller am No King," I sty, *Xing die?* Feller says
*Don't die* Ban't live, don't die*" I guess that King soared, hare PeoPle
know who, they hurt. Got have King, though. I read in book. Yee do ,-.4)t think
I read in book, bare Sure, I read. tnglieh I read, either. Good. That are47
nephew me, crazy, he could reads 'he go itched", aellege, he weld read* Some.
tie be read like I read, Boston American. Sometile he read acrucestar Tinos*
Don't reed bop*, but. I read book. I read lots book.
"Last summer I read book all about ksericen war Civil war. Ail about
that LineaM4 •s.reat man, that Lincoln. Be have war 'with niggers. No niggers
No niggers Rxkport. 3efOre that Lincoln comenigçry run what call
South. Bverywhere niggers rum. Lincoln come, my nigger. atop Nigers say,
*No. We vault stop.N Tell Lincoln go to hell. Lincoln here mar, make niggers
stop, harrl Put in jail. Put ill niggers in jail. kil Worker try pet them
oat. Can't get them out, Lincoln emit let, hooesvelt won't let. Four
five year ago they have nigger women over F045. ,:cve, feller tell me, work in
rich summer people halos, ii s wede woven inn woman, i don't see. Feller
teal me. Not there
When I slay that my nenhee he is crazy I tell yea he is crasyt
Yesterday. at does he do yel7terdayi Yesterday he go down dump beak of Phil
brook's find old bottles, eld engine *rte, old -laces pipe, bring tem home,
*lean 'elm up, walk to Qlonceeter sell gem to jamkman for money half a pint of
:11reb orchard. 0. ybe I am broke, I am younr feller, I i*pt no job, meYbe
than I want have drink* That's noiso crazy. After he here drink everything up
he start walk be, Five miles Gloucester* FiTe Mile"; back., what be care?
He got nothing else to do He has not had regular job. almost ten year.
740 go Rockport 2igh School two three yeer. It year of all he go
Glouosster High 3shool. Say better ligh SchoOl. I don't know. Then he go
two years to the aurdett's college and college pets him jOh lay over in Boston
autembile 21aces work in office. Six year La work there every air not an
Sonday. Hews to be them eight ovaodk. 3ot up f ve o'clock have breakfast,
toiler give his ride get first train eix ()gawk in Aoroirtg. He could not get
there right he take seven o'clock train. Get in 3oston they got North Station
he got plenty time walk to auttraobile lace out what they caLl Conlanwealth
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AINIMMON, Save ten *antes too, he work until after siX o'clock, Two mob after
six o'clock get *ix thirty train back. Get seven thirty train took. Most of
time ealk home fro stations scpvti.41e* .'rst ride. f011er who always give his
ride in morning work on railroad section Fangs call his 51111dyaleer. Henry
does not psy that fellei., onl sometio buy him cigarettes Christmas get his
neckties. ieller give ib ritie at nit soetime, give those fellers nothing
iihat tne nell 41gy says wrou want rides hazT? e say, "Sum" Bever get
home maybe nine o'clock sawn oat ride, alloet half last when have to walk.
Sometime rain snaw too hard walk no ride it for bus, not home alroat ten
o'clock. Not much life for him him? Get home eats eo right beds pot get
up five ea/Wk.
Got make moneys tjeh. -.0ot work. No money, no live* Bo work, no
money. I Awes leybe he first o nark that Boeton he make &elven twelve dein-
liars is. Two three years he pet raise make fourti dollar. Mot so sneh,
herr? Lost fifteen, twenty dollars month railrowd. :;otta take lambs some-
time even have lunch, say, "t the heIll* Go buy coffee, pisoe pie, too.
I do, too, ihim. tiot but „bare sometios, Got oar fire So -:-ton sometime
rain snow. Sometime rain enow 7et of: train Boston North ;•tation ':,4ake car
get out emit place not coon half noun. Lan not stand out -door in rain snow.
Craw needs
Go in in restaurant keep earn dry. Have to buy yeu go in restaurant
Thee will not let ye,t in restanrant you do not buy. Gofrees Aires ething
seerhe.
Got have nice suits too, got. wear hat, hu'im dlean sbirts shine shoe,.
Lope job not htve nice euits weerhats cle.n Shirt Anima Oho... After that
Henry cow pey me his nether board, nc have money for hit. He newer even
have woke, that feller. Never.have girl* too. No time have girl. Harty=
get girl you buey five o'clock wrning nine ten o'clock night, go to bed nine
ten &clock nights Sleep five o'clock morning? Too tired have girl* toe. NO
money. Girl does not li e feller no money. Got plenty of money allegro have
girl* have pretty girl, have good tioe. No :aoney, girl say, "at the hair
You know I think that feller Lenry true ht never -a-tdrees woman onoe
at, alli No he thirty...five, thirty •.08i1C year old, never take woman to bed at
ail! Harri 3esetime 1 an thirty-five, thirty-six year oll T take fifty wonmn
to bed, pretty women, Zat siemens all kinds stolen. rot alt7:getN9tr, thoueh,
Differ-nt times* That Aenry feller 'rte Uk., too, you. 'Jett Anytime some eoman
go by he go log* out wiadow at her. :..iragy feller/
leeteedgy he drink up Crab aroberd ewer Gloucester, enneback, et
ride* have tapper. After supper leak. comae Ann teller noekhelm Avenue,
ow* "Hello Liar, you go sauna, )*rr? I oays nm: v to hell with that sauna"!
Henry* thee* nenry say, nure I go. You :ver go sauna, !err? Sauna cragyi
Just iinn fellers have sauna. 3wedia :oilers they do not bsms his. in sauna
everybody take of: clothes. Liummer. a-lnter. Teke off clothes lust same. They
got nre under rooks. Throw an water. Ake steam. You emelt breathe. Once
asidruek I go same. I never go again even 1 am drunk. Yesterday that HOW
he is not drunk.. ne oaly pint %;.rat.. Jrcnard Cannot get drank nint Crab
Orabard. Canaot get drunk quart. lie go s47usy. You ktIvw vdiat? I do not
think he g0 sauna he like mune.I tAnk be go sauna just he re sorvenere.
Craw aged*
Igusedbiy maybe foliar *awe Diary you go Helibart point
harrs jeep in comas maybe stay t
)*rr X think that How goi
lbws be hays that jab Boatan plows that Stogy ser sameti,
with job, All time go to jobs vork at jobs came from jobs no taws so woman
so girl. *As I tell job go te hells burr?' Tee Invariant lie wrf nom, *TS
I have thmt job sores* he says *I get vp three oldeak monsings mot getbole
two eels* sormisgs work tades as herds get only miss ton dollars* t happiest
man in all tbis world.* Dot be Matt get jab mere, I thirst be lever get job
Paper my good business novo totter badman NOM* NIVAIN I bops. ant
better basin's* *sun taw don't sent that Elmrys Whet good i11 er de sobbing
mesh mime ton years? Liko old man* That Dew be oKly thirightire
Imre be Liks old semi, Ihey do mot sant him* %NW omit Yomag Misr, goidks
happn lets life. Toll Ma s "Do tat be rum do it. Tell barn "Do that,*
he denstkmawidat hail kin,
Writ. Dias ten rare boss mar Bongo "Sorry, No job, AllAbhenegb•
ett toes twelve /iris faller*, try baspauserlad way lobsalar off Wm. IOW*
glory come boss thn. rood papers, write lotto's to plespilo say to papers URI
emit hire somabo4r• Got ride Boston, get ridellans get ride lassrosaas galas.
Boovoly look for jib. No jib Portz's. be imp Usk far job like that toe
three pers. &metier I Owe Ma dollar los &Wars go in trains boy stoops
letters buy papaws get mmorabirt. Bat post* soon suits all games oboes all
gone, nobody sent tiller like tbit. Thai he just look tor job ibmikpert, Mousse.
tors tgyterer in ipssish the ogile. No Inb for hlm. s almot nark in *AWL
owspanys mot strong in it there is job, Whonbo Young go high whoa, oirougs
bushy, but after vark in that 3ostan linden rids an trains sit by dolts wits is
books all set, seak4 Daly strong tailor work the% tool company,
If yew/ ram maybe jab tine beeper er in offlo., but +parry rat
sething. had that *say he seeld aot 06 jeb aortae Poe or DIrdegra. Deem
net *tend meal et flab* Wee hl* sta. Mae Sim three *P•leati 150 POI
that sigg be emart goo with lee attar the lobule'. barber art Kitts but
IN4141 beat Islet boy be Asko No geed then. Me good at ell. Better bare AO.*
bedy la Isom& after lobster but bla, 10mem free nobody* He In any, Ede
la ein say. that Mewl feller.
Per little while ONO two tines he be. Ira job, 104 too seri* weak
ter tbat• Ilebeey toe wet week that jib, Me it to do. Jost hold &oral,
threw little dirt, rest, throw rock, hold Aorta sane Iteres That lag* se *Lek.
Sematine see ftre Me Paler Mtn* stone en drag I Ilfrone Isadir barrS
It* limy lent that lira job, too, They lay *VT the else* Mob ED net aged
4sb beep wife, abildren• ihert have beep himself that Neon Gannet de
Mali I take ear* hie pother, sr sister, and she got little powder", anyway,
other mat binges brIther kin In war,
ihemetles I gee angt7 that Beery, burr. Yea tidek feller ilhe that no
geed eapthing he hasp *oath Ghat anyway* herr, Yesterday be areay, eon
bask after that sieme, ways Met tl eat?' I says ifissasergo Tound /alf geed
beedniggs, eget terter.Stre mai.° liennr ay, More yea get fortyhirlie amts.
baser I te11 his. Met the hall /tall his sell Inv lobsters. Dad dew.
Only two lebotare, aU I catch* rat Wray es maw. Be says *thy you not
bring labetere base, we sato bare roar tines this week we set rod-danned
basbarg. Rum de not sot lebtterlw env that Henry. le 01Sheet redik4P— tend*
I week all neradag, seta two lobsters, bring boat eat thews make not:hint): for
all wet. 3031 lehotera, sake forty-five CORA16 Day bestbirn. Not such, but
seeethIng. Now, twit Henry, herr,
Feller was toil me venr fkmany th faller say they get law nor
may yot cannot chip dead lasts, from Boston down to lila. Only' ems Ship
live lobster. Ihy they vent ship goy lobebsr down *alas, burr? they got
star damn Milne, they gut plenty lobster. larabsew *here Conedlidated /Astir
Ceepeely is, hare/ Is °Tor Say Vim, dock where used be %apart illgamite Qmaray
Oompanyhlood-ledem quarry. Got pink rniniterthere, rood geanIto. Sometime
Ivo* that quarry. I never work.' tbat Consolidated Ldboter Gompaay, harr. I
mover bin some 101)4er. Nobody ever sell Ida some lObster. lea knoorebere
he got his lambs?, herr/ Oet bim down Maine, domn Nom genus, sup main
by airship. Ti go over some tine you eon ore. Sometimes put in tarok, mond
Bostn, at in plane send Lnr York. irrs at live Lasater frEms Meg' Scotia
in airship* seed Mew York wammerr.poople
I ese airOUp. One time I am over DOg lOmn gmt blusiberriss, I beer
airship, look up, see airship, very low, rot sign, say asnediabotlisbeter 0010.
pany, Glocoester, Maseadhusetts. Too 1..-Awrobat be fenny thing, herr/ Be fmoOr
thine, feller at loblter dose Maine, put an airship, bring to lay Rim, put
on Wink, mad to flostm, llbeter die, put on train, Ship down to Mains, mow.
body esti I tell you one thing Tore fenny that, happen all time. Toe go doom
First Retilnel norm, Rockport, get nth. ase4Port fl I &wit auk
Reokport fish. Yen want Rookeort fish eot go demo Somankim rook. Pinot Matismil
Stars Fish oome from Bostol motet. There's feller doom Memos Cove mail him
Parke, each fish, toy fith. Ship to Boston market. Does not sell flab in Mom
Core. Sore you go down fish some in, say, *Want haddock 'ant cod.' b sill
yen. But no buvines that. '.:0oet business ship Reston.
Crow doses
AU stiebt• Pipes Gen tenor go Mk* Chit* heddeek• Se21 Misr
Mks Mr Herten. Mapes lasts. maybes Fir*, Siddiessal Mae Beaton bey
fishy pet ea tresiii Wag bask Beeliperto Ilaybe elle taller neat deer nom
Owe teUvr fish* sq. Mine elneelar teditbt• holdeekes de ww Met
mama 'try haddedr.. meld& la bent yard but go lawlea ter tripd Tea igo
111111111 Met Wawa' steno Pigmy Owe ems thee. tee fee. "Oho ea sea
neekeweles Ore yen sea seiteeed ell right. Mews ease that aseharel.
herr? Ger Seebort? Clew Camaesetert Come OaWends: earsti
I teU yea see thing erre few both, as relief war liseqpieth. 0114
1111111111110. gat awater, get teen. Get papetratt, get emmed mat. get pettimee.
Get TAJO ever dloseeeter. etther• erne tine taller tett as twain seam
Gloweaters get ides ten oupftloade *led ter ratite Get pupetandt?
neteteest Get salt MIS CaWends&
I mew lihe eat fieh, I eat fleb• Norse liks. Bat meherade Nat
kaiak Me go ever 1%14 Gems seven Oda* AP*. get Cad laghind Mho. MI
on. ants Beet Ulie get earns Like eyes et wed. let way tillers WEN
Yea know list feller tell art Palm tell so thoweee teller get ykeee ern
lebeter diamer• Dig Ammo ara7bedr ems. ysy Ws three dollen bays labs.
ter Mauer. Go hew teU everybsdy, not abea3A ge Vat plow Awe pied
lidepter dinner** labeller. thoed Tea how she* that tense WU net *Mar
tell we f13 er kw Aims oft lebeter rat eadmehednoi, eget lamp taste pod,
nab* kart difterawast net Ilke pay two VIM dialler that kind labs.
ter dieser
demetlee I sell iM. lobsters, nese lots awry, bcr now hitt. new suite
new those, rin lows what I ea de, heart lea go Dersten. go Is taro eas MAW
&do roller tall me lbw get lets bora Beaten, lets pretty girt. IA 111)
bars my. Male* I an Gar, I get lab. wow* yea eine eith es. herr?* Polley
Crazy wade
say ihe come with me. I do not want do had thing that girl. I would not take
Chance, got sick. I lust want pretty girl with ne. We go nowise, best mollies
Boston, pay forty, fifty cents both, I don't oars. Then we go back bar, get
good drink whisky. Tinny* go restaurant have dinner. You know at we have
dinner, hare We have bake potatoes, and veal outlets, and Swedish brawl,
and Swedish coffee, and chicken soup, and 3wedish cakes seybo. All we can
eat. I bet that girl Ohs never have dinner like that, hare
One time last summer I go over Bock 2't Caminito Goopany quarry. Walk
down an dock, see stomp -suttees sheds, all go to pianissimi -1k under bridge,
along where tracks was, all gone down, pull up, send to Japan4 All railroad
tracks Rockport pal up, send to japan. I go by blacksmith ahop, alltail
to pions, by powerw.house, nothing there, all rot. I almoot cry I tell you.
When I come Rodkport four fire hundred feller work that quarry, take out stone,
cut stone, ship everywhere. Nownobddy out stone at all. Rebody sant stood,.
Now cement, stmcco, brio. Jest use little bit stone now. Company cannot
keep quarries just oat little stone mem Up, three years. Got to let go,
got to let go to pianos, plate let rot. Alloseet cake you arty.
Mike fine building of genit*, beautiful building, last long, last
forever. I guess no more Rockport [quite buildings, hare I never think that,
I tell you. Faller, farmer, he think, what the hell people almeys eat vheat,
set .7atektoes• Feller, fisheraan think people Alloys eat ood, sat haddock,
oame thing qua:Tr-filler. Says people hot have buildings. G t have buildings,
want good buildings. 'Mint good buildings, granite best buildings. I think
that sometime. I guess no, hare
Creaky Seeds
Quarries full *fester now, derricks pull down they do not fail, kin
somebody, tracks off Japan make cannon, ba7-ges rot, docks like paper. Quarry.
fellers forget how be querry.fellers. Some cm)d not hold drill now, hit with
hammer. *ould not know what. You tell is that when I come Rockport I laught
You tell me that batik big strike .I laugh. We had big strike batik 1925s overy.
body go auts company won't pay union eolle. Won't go book but get union soils.
hoe long you think strike last, )err? Strike last years herr* That right.
Quarry fellers don't go back Rockport Granite Company Quarry one year. Little
wh'As get strike benefits then no. Union no money. Soma fellers mhile strike
go work some place else, Few work scab wages some place else. TiOst don't
do nothing. Company try run quarry with Reliant and guards. Oennot do its
no. Italians don't cut enough stone drown oat. They pat lot them in house
near Peter Bernard's garage,. Some nights strikers throw stones house, do not
sent hurt, just WORM
Bimeby company settle win, but one year long time be an strike.
The company some feller tell me, lose million dollars try break that strike.
After that quarries do not work long. Cut stone antral -foes big tonna Rex York
and biz bridge down Rhode Ialerd. Pretty DOOM diOd44 I goess those Roger*
fellers epend too much time Country alb, not snoagh time quarry. Your long
time strike. One time in war they have striks in Aockport not last year.
Last day. Not quarrymen. Cablemen. Over *able station. Company do lot
business. Men want more pay. Company say no. One night all same time men
work for Gable °mow go an strt4e, hodkports either. Men0 morning, compeer
rase pays harr1 Other strike over Gloucester one time fumy fhipe happen.
'tocking factory on 'tribes Ipswich sills. Company get big crowd strike.
breakers come izconsin. Gome autombbiles. All come automadles. One morn-
ing they cannot rtnoi fifteens twenty automobiles, They do not lock at bottom
of quarry.pit, harr3
noon Aodkport Granite Company close up I think not for long. Business
bed, Pretty soon business good. Old woothboildinge wear out, old wood bridges
fell down, eomebody die, got have status. I think, either, maybe Roger* brothers
not such good business men. Ugybe some other business man come Rockport, boy
quarries, give everybody job. Not yet. Yeller come now. Got bay pumps, put
up derricks, lay tracks, build shops, get barges, machines, toOldo Got opt
men, too. Lot quarry men here you think, harr? Lot used.be qparry meal Like
Me•
I get little work nom then after company clomp up. I work Leonard
Johnson's little while. I work little shile Fitsgibbon's over Lanserills.
Tharewasworis two three years ALJ) some fellers. Build brealoweater Neiburr-
port, got have stone. No jai, for me then. I Silberman then. Other filler
me set trawls off halibet point get cod, get oellodk, get hake. Some weeks
one week ten make wok's pay, make twent7-five dollar. Uost weeks make money
for gas, for bait, for paint for boat, few pennies beside. I give that up.
I give feller my Share fishing boat for snail gas Isanzokazd Skiff. I find
few Iobster.pots, fix up, find more. Niefr I lebotermen for good. I guess. Not
ono' make ten dollars seek yet, half ti,ne maks five, half time nettling,.
No sore qoarlmr work I guess fifteen, twenty years. Them mark. Mhdh
work thou, harri Menai buildings, bridges, roads made last ten fifteen
years go piety.% You OM Breryboty see, Stn000 no good, concrete no rood,
day granite good. Everybody want granite then. Nobody want something else
ever some more. arrise open again. coarriee stay open, harr3 Everybody
got job' carry Job!