Lottie and Mom went to Mrs. Hollett's house and got their cuts bandaged. Years later Mom still had pieces of glass coming out of her wrist.

Then we took off and went higher on the hill, which they called the Humpess Head, but don't ask me how it was spelled.

I remember the next day. I know it snowed, because I remember Fred. He didn't have any clothes to wear. I can see him so plain, in this child's dress. We were down helping pick up some of the debris and found some of the girls dresses. I guess they were from the neighbours' children.

Our house didn't break up. It was towed in and moored off in Ship Cove by the old schooner Daisy.

Even the old cat stayed in the house. It got really wild. When they tried to get it out of the house, it jumped out the window and over someone's head and swam ashore. We never saw it after. It probably just went wild.

Dad was down in the woods, cutting wood for the winter. I think it was a couple of days before he heard. I remember him telling me their boats all went dry, down there in the bay where they were. I guess they were laying down or something and they heard all the chains rattling because the tide was all out.

Dad towed the house back to Kelly's Cove. We used to use it for a fish store, where we stored the salt fish.

I had nightmares for a long time after. In my dream I was always going up a hill and the water was only a few feet behind me. For years after. I was traumatized I guess.

After the tidal wave, mother always had a roaring sound in her head, like the sea. She never ever got rid of that. She lived until she was seventy-five. She always heard that noise. I imagine she was in shock and she was never treated for it.

You know, floating around with five children in the house, I guess you would be in shock too!