Another time my cousin, his wife and I left Tacks Beach to go to Harbour Buffett in open boat. On the way, something happened which caused a fire around the engine room. The man attending the engine drew water from the dill room, which only increased the fire. Then he had to draw water over the side of the boat to extinguish it.

At age fourteen I went to work with the firm of Alberto Wareham & Sons as sales clerk in their general store. When not busy there, I went down to the fish store to help pack the dry codfish. 448 pounds of fish were put in each cask and pressed down with a heavy screw by two men. That fish was exported to Spain, Denmark, Portugal and Barbados.

After working with Warehams' for a couple of years I went to St. John's. I opened a confectionery store on Boncloddy Street. After a year I moved down to New Gower Street. I was only there about a year when the Shop Act came in. Then I had to screen off the grocery side with wire netting, and was only allowed to sell confectionery after six P.M.

I went to work with Alberto Wareham & Sons again. Before Newfoundland joined Confederation, when supplies were brought in by their boats from P.E.I. or other foreign places, they would put a tidewaiter on board to enforce customs regulations.

One of their boats came from P.E.I. with produce for their firm at Spencer's Cove. After the cargo was unloaded, the boat was light in ballast. We left Spencer's Cove to return to Harbour Buffett and the wind was very strong. Coming around Buffett headland, one gust of wind in the sails caused the boat to lean over enough that the tip of the sail's boom touched the sea.

Here is another memory. One winter I fell on an axe and cut a piece of flesh completely out of my leg. After about a week, proud flesh came in the cut. Someone got clam shells, crushed them to a powder and sprinkled it on the cut and it healed in a short time. I have the scar on my leg for anyone to see now, at age 86.