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R. What was the farmhouse like on the inside?
M. On the inside? Well, it was big. Maybe looking back at it now, maybe it looks bigger than it really was, as I would see it, eh? ‘Cause, as they say, the old swimming hole always looks back bigger in memory, but when you went back there again, it had become a lot smaller.
R. Right.
M. But the house, it was big. You come in the front door. And, on the left, there was a parlour and behind it was a bedroom. And all this side was one big room. And it was pioneer, pioneer days, you see. All this was one big room with a big long table, for to feed people, and this was a cooking…and people ate. Now, the bar-room was in there, just off of that room.
R. Off the big room?
M. Yeah. Off the big room. The bar-room was in the middle.
R. Okay. What was the outside of the house like?
M. It was a log house, see, but you would never know it from the outside because it was shiplapped. And they’re using that again now. That’s the boards and then a narrow board on the joint.
R. On the joint.
M. Yeah.
R. And was that nailed together — pegged together?
M. Oh, yeah, it was nailed on.
R. Nailed on.
M. And painted, they painted it white and green.
