The mans name was Mr. Willikin. We knocked on the door and he came out and we asked him I if he could take the three of us in for the night. He told us to come in and lay on the floor, it was as good as he could do because all his beds where full and the next morning we had breakfast and we asked him the charged. He said 1.00 a man. So we paid for our breakfast and left to walk through the country. We was two days from the time we left Deer Lake until we got to Norris Point's. The third day we got home and my father was very sick. I stayed home and in June  my father died. There was four of us and only myself to support us. I went fishing that summer. I managed to feed us while I was fishing. I left then and went to Lomand to work in the woods. I worked all that winter. At the camp i worked at there was a man there from Port  Saunders. He wanted me to go to Port Saunders and go fishing with  a man name Henry House. I fished there all that summer and when i came home i brought home 300.00 and bought food enough for my mother and two brothers. I came home and went back in the woods again in September. I worked with the Forman a month and he wanted me to go second hand with him. I went second hand and was there until April. I got 40.00 a month. I left in April and came home. Them went to Port Saunders again fishing with Henry House .There was lots of fish. I made a good summer and brought home $400.00 when I came. We signed on for the summer and that was in the first world war and when we got in Port Saunders they came down conscripting for the war, all the young men. Henry House got exemption for us until fishing was over. After fishing was over we had letters from St.John's  and myself and Bob Lavis volunteered. We was supposed to go up on the steamer coming up and I was Port Saunders. I wired a message to my mother to meet me in Cow Head. I was going to St.John's on the steamer and Eugene Rumbolt  belonged to Port Saunders wanted me to stay until the next steamer, because he was going too. When i got to cow head my mother was there and I told her I wasn't going till the next summer and I came home with her. When I got home I had a letter from  St.John's telling me to go to the nearest doctor and get examined. I went to doctor  Green  at Woody Point. He sent my reports in and i passed for the war. The next steamer coming down I had another letter from St.John's telling me to stay at home and wait until I was called. That was in September and in November the was over. That same year 1920 I got married. My hard work them came. I had to go in the woods and cut logs for 5 cents a log to feed us. I made $2.00 a day and that was in Rocky Harbour. I  had to take my groceries on my back every Saturday evening and walk home so as to feed her that week. I worked for four years like that and in Hawkes Bay there was a company cutting pulp wood at a dollar cord and I change my mind and moved to Daniels Harbour. That where my wife belonged  to. With that I went to Hawkes Bay to see the manager and the manager I knowed him. I got  a camp with fifty men and I cut fifteen  hundred cords of wood that winter. I had my wife and two children down to hawkes bay with me. I worked all the winter till April for $50.00 a month. At that time my wife wanted to go back to Daniels Harbour .I had to hire a dog team to take them up to Daniels Harbour. I went back again to finish my job. I  worked there until the the 15th of May. I had all my wood off and I went up to Daniels Harbour. On the 15th of June I had word from Hawkes Bay telling me to to come back again, they had work for me. They wanted me to take another camp for the winter. I took the camp and runned it that winter. In may I finished my job and went back to Danils Harbour where I went fishing. I lived in Daniels Harbour for  five years and I left Daniels Harbour and shift back home to St.Paul's. Then my hard times come. Lobster fishery closed down woods work closed down and I had to go on welfare, four of us in the family I got $17.00 a month welfare. We lived on that for two years and in April the fishery  open. I was getting ready for fishing. The policeman and magistrate used to issue the orders and they came down at the time for us to get the orders. I went to the magistrate and he told me I had to go to the policeman. When I went he asked me what I wanted. I told him I came to see about my orders. He told me there was no more orders issued. There was work in Lomand cutting pulpwood. I had to go to the merchant and get a bit of food to bring home to my family. I went up to Lomand and I went cutting pulpwood. i worked there for three weeks weeks and when I got my wood scaled and went to the office. All I made was $30.00.Now fishing time was up and I  came home and started fishing. I fished till the 20th of June, then came a big storm and beat up what lobster traps I had. I brought it ashore what was left, then I went to deer lake to work in the woods. I worked there until August and I came home and went to Lomand . D.J Johnson was wood manager and he had 500 cords of wood left in the woods from the winter before. He asked me if I'd take the camp and all of the 500 cords and cut some more. I asked him what wages would I get, he told me $80.00 a month. But I told him I had a wife and three children and I couldn't go and leave them home all winter, unless I could take them with me. he told me to go to Lomand and talk to the office manager and I might come on terms so as to bring them up. I went to Lomand and went in the managers and I told him that Johnson wanted me to take the camp where 500 cords of wood was left in the woods. I told him I had a wife and three children and couldn't leave them all winter without I could bring them up with ,e. he told me to go home and bring my wife and three children up. He said my wife could help cook and I feed her and the three children and it wouldn't cost me 5 cents. I told him the steamer was up and had to go back again and come up before i could get up to Lomand  on her. He said you go home and wait until the steamer comes up and bring up your wife and three children. I come home and waited until the steamer went up, then I went to Lomand. They had a pair of horses and a sleigh ready to take me and my family in the camp. I had 25 men. We hauled off the 500 cord that was in the woods and cut 1500 more. The most we could get for all we cut was $1.50 a cord.    Well that's all he had written. Hope you enjoyed it .                                                            back home