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7/7/72 Tape 24

movement would swish around and take the nails out so is, I'm not exaggerating this is how it happened, so when he left the cow down and took the block and tackle out the cow fell and then they sent for my dad my dad laughed and said Mr. B you'd better send for the veterinarian, so the veterinarian arrived and said, what did you do, Mr. R. told them the story well he said, the cow's going to die you can attribute the cow's death to Mr. R cure.

HF: Well I know that it did happen that nails were found in the chop and accidentally the cows did take them but they survived but some of the things were really crazy.

DF: You know before I went to school, after I had graduated from high school, I needed some money and in those days my dad didn't have any my dad said, I would like to see you go to school but you have to earn the money, so I got a job about the colliery here, working in the car shop or doing odd jobs, you know, and I was appointed a member of the fire squad.

HF: That was the one you had to pull

DF: Did you tell Angela about

HF: I told her about, there were so many men to be

GF: Well this is the story, it happened during prohibition days and I guess (Helen) told you about what went on in this town during prohibition

HF: I didn't tell her as much as Mr. Sulkuski did and a couple of others

GF: Well practically every other family had a still and they made their own whisky and they called it hootch and every once in awhile someone would run up to the colliery, "Mr. 'So & So's shanty is on fire", we called these little summer kitchens shantys, in the summertime and the folks lived in there and did their cooking there and during the winter, wash clothes, this is what happened, usually Mr. So & So before he went to work built a fire in the kitchen stove and get the mash, now the mash, they usually had a barrelbehind the stove, one of these 52 gallon barrels they would pour a lot of rye in there, sometimes corn, cabbage leaves, tomatoes, anything, yeast cakes to induce fermentation you understand and also