He laughed. He said, "Yeah, right."

I said, "I am. I'm going fishing with you."

And he didn't believe me till the day that I didn't go back to the plant. We only had one arrangement, and that was he did not leave me to walk through the stage myself. I was more afraid of walking through that big long stage than I was of getting out on the water. I could picture the rat running out between my feet. I used to get up a half hour earlier 'cause he didn't eat and he used to have his clothes laid by the bed -two seconds he could be out. It used to take me a half hour to dress, I used to have that much clothes to put on, layers and layers of clothes. He said, "If you ever falls overboard, you're not coming back up." I figured I could always take some off, but if I didn't have it with me, it wasn't a place that you could sing out. So by the time the sun would come up, I used to start taking off a few layers.

I got in the boat and I'll never forget, we were going out through the harbour the first morning and I was trying to be right good and wouldn't dare argue or say nothing. Then when we got out, he got out of the little house,

and I says, "B'y, what do I do?"

He said, "Stay in there till daylight."

I said, "Okay, I won't argue, I'll sit down." And the old boat started to go when he anchored. I started to feel sick and I said, "I got to get out of here, you got to give me something to do."

And he said, "Get down there."

"Not likely," I said to him. "I'm not going down there."

"You got to, this is my spot," he said. "I'm in this spot 10 years."

Then I said, "Well, buddy, you just lost it. I'm not going down there." It's just like you're right out in the water, in the end of the boat the water was so close to you. But where he was to was by the house and it was right comfortable. So he had to move. And, of course, all the men tormented him about that. "She come out and got you out of your spot," they said.

Oh, I loved it. I said, "How foolish was I all them years in the plants, working like a dog for somebody else. You're out there in the fresh air." Now lots of days it was really rough. One day, I cried and I laughed that much that I pissed in me oil pants and everything. Rough! Frightened to death! We were right up around Bay Bulls fishing, the water used to come down and over us like nothing. I never thought we were getting in. But still it didn't frighten me enough that I wouldn't go back.

The big difference from working in the plant was being on your own. At that time I was smoking - you couldn't have a cigarette when you wanted to have it. They told you when you ate, they told you when you smoked, they told you when you could go to the washroom, they told you when you were going home and when you were going to leave your home. Even though you're out on that water 2:00 in the morning, that was your decision to do that. You could've said, "Well, I'll wait till 3:00," but you decided to go at 2:00. And it was you decided when you were coming in.