An Axe for Christmas
Photo courtesy of the Placentia West Heritage Committee
Jane: What did ye usually get for Christmas down in Boat Hr?
Joe: I can’t remember very much. If you got something for Christmas it was a scribbler, an exercise or a few crayons, probably. Something you were gonna use. I remember one time I got an old broken flashlight, that was in my stocking. Very few toys when I was growing up. Put the splits together and make a wharf. Tie piece line on junk a wood tow it around the house that was your boat.
Earl: First Christmas I was out of school I got an axe. I knew what I was going at after Christmas. And I still got ‘er.