One time, after Christmas, Pad went to visit his friends, and one of them asked him did the darbies get him. When he said they didn't, his friend asked, "where did you go to get away from them?" Pad said he went up in his own hole – which, of course, was the barrel he had for catching rabbits.

POORS OR POWERS

In years gone by, there was a crippled man by the name of "Poors" or "Powers" as they are called today. They originated from Mobile on the Southern Shore. Power was on his way to Placentia to work on a fishing boat. He stayed at Tremblett's in Harricott. They lived on what is now Paddy's Meadow. He told that he was a relation to the Meaney's in Colinet. This was in the wintertime, so there was only a sleigh path to Colinet. After he had left, it started to snow and he lost his way.

There was no way of knowing if he had reached Colinet, and after he was gone for four or five days, it was found that he never had got to Colinet. They searched for him, but never found him until the spring. A man went looking for his cows and found him in by the Hay Pond River in a tuck of black spruce.

The people brought out his body and buried him in Mt. Carmel. There was a cross put in the place where they found him. The cross is still looked after by the Walls. The bill for his burial is at Gibbon's Funeral Home in St. Mary's. I'm not sure, but I think it was around $14.00. The cross is today called'Dickie's Cross'.

Staff house, Harricott. 1938.