The story I'm going to tell happened when I was a young boy about 13 years old, I think it was 1947, around that time anyway. At that time we lived over across the harbour in the cottage, what used to be the cottage where the RCMP station is now, there in that vicinity. So I got up this morning. It was a very nice day, in April month, I think. The Caribou Run was still frozen over. I harnessed up my dogs and decided I'd go to Battle Harbour for the day. So I went to Battle Harbour and on the way everything was perfect. I spent the day out there and I came back, around 3 o'clock in the evening or there about. I had a good team of 7 dogs with a good leader. When we got back on the point on this side, there was water on top of the ice. When I had left there in the morning there was no water there at all, not a bit. So that was all that I bothered about it, dogs can go across that. I let them continue on exactly the same way when we left where we came back. The leader knew exactly what to do. When the leader got almost to the other side my komatic got in the water. When she seen that I was in the water she turned around and came back to me instead of going on across. There I was in the water with 7 dogs around me clinging on to the komatic. So I was there quite some time while I waited for people to come and help. They had to haul the dory from the mission wharf over across to this side here just outside where Reg Snook lives. That was where the hole of water was. They got me in the dory but one of the dogs drowned that time. We measured the water, it was 9 feet deep. I remember very clearly that time that Annie Snook was pregnant and I can remember saying,"Be careful, Annie is pregnant," something like that. I think that was when Freeman was born. What started off as a beautiful day almost turned out drastic in the end.