Taken to Jerome

054.1

Male Informant
Date: September 30, 1977
Transcription: Lise A. Robichaud, Marie-Colombe Robichaud and Caroline-Isabelle Caron

Original Acadian French

Inf.: Moi, quand j’étais ain p’tit gars, de six, sept ans d’vieux, j’me souvins de lui.

Coll.: Tu l’as vu ?

Inf.: Ah ouai.

Coll.: Ah, tu l’as vu ?

Inf.: Mais oui, mais c’est de ma p’tite souv’nance. Quand c’qu’on s’tchenait pas trantchille, nos méres nous disiont qu’il’ alliont aller nous montrer, nous porter à Jérôme.

English

Inf.: When I was a little boy, six, seven years old, I remember him.

Coll.: You saw him?

Inf.: Oh yeah.

Coll.: Ah, so you saw him?

Inf.: Sure, but these are my childhood memories. When we misbehaved, our mothers told us they were going to show us, take us to Jerome.

Source: Centre Acadien, Université Sainte-Anne, Archives orales, 054.1, Informateur, "Taken to Jerome ," , September 30, 1977.

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