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R. Okay. Do you remember a time—well did the dams ever break?
P. Oh yeah, yes.
R. Can you tell me about that?
P. The dam—the dam bust and we were living inside at the old place that time, and the dam broke. And when the dam bust, the foreman came down and he said to us: “You get out. Get out of the house.” We said, “Why?” “Well,” he said, “the dam broke and we don’t know what’s going to take place. If we can’t block it it’ll have to maybe go into your house, you aren’t far off the river bank, you know.” So we started to take everything from out of the house up into the bush way up on the hill, carrying everything up. Mother had a goose set out in the edge of the river alongside of the house, and we forgot about the goose, you know, and the whole thing came down. The logs, the logs went in through the windows in the kitchen where mother used to cook. Through the windows and then the water went into the dining room and there were two logs come from the kitchen into the dining room, but they didn’t come in the bar-room. None came in the bar-room. There was only one window in the bar-room. All, just the one window. But they came through the window in the kitchen and came though the other room into...and they came down. First thing we were up on the hill watching the logs, the stuff going. Mother seen that goose going round the bend in the nest. She says, “Look at the goose.” I said, “We can’t do nothing for her now, we’ll never get her.” So away down around… the nest she’s sitting in, the box never broke and it never broke. It floats on the water. It went way down, a way around the curve, down when she hit the curve way down. And Foy said to mother, “Well, the goose will come back but the nest won’t come back.” Father says, “You’ll never see the goose again.” By gol’ in about half an hour here was the goose come flying up through the field. She got out of the nest, took the bush into the field, but the eggs were gone. I’ll never forget that…
