tales-of-Fogo-Island

a can of stuff for dinner like they does now! The main thing was that wehad potatoes, meat and bread. That was the feed: potatoes and beef andsometimes a bit of pease pudding. I can remember seeing an egg friedon board once. Not like it is now. Oh yes! There was plenty of biscuitstoo! You could eat away at them. There wasn't much grub, but still therewas no way to be hungry. There was plenty of 'rough' grub to eat. EverySaturday we would go ashore and get something extra fer supper onSunday. P'raps a tin of milk, and a piece of cheese. That was about it,but it was a real treat.I was up in St. John's on the M.G. Butt when the war was on. Back then,you couldn't get in the harbour after six o'clock in the evening. At sixo'clock they hauled a big chain or net across the narrows. This wassupposed to keep enemy submarines and ships out of the harbour.The view outside of St. John's Harbour, looking towards the narrows.If you were not there before six o'clock they would not let you in. A lot ofpeople put in some hard nights up there off St. John's. I remembergetting there one time at exactly six o'clock and the coast guard cameout along side of us. They asked the old feller what he wanted. He toldthem he didn't want anything, except to get in to St. John's to pick up aload of 'eatables' for Fogo Island. They told us we only had a minute ortwo left to get inside. We just done it.Jimmy John had the M.G. Butt for 11 years and that's how long I was onher. When Jimmy John was finished with her, he sold her to a man by