<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>10:09 but i must tell you this one this happened against another keeper tut and er we'd been working putting a door under a house the house had a double <.>sh it was a two storey type place and a big coal cellar underneath and we put this door and <.>s swung the door tut and reg herangi and i were talking away then i said that's <.>k <.>s right underneath <,> the bedroom right underneath robert's bedroom here i said so i said i'm going to put a drill hole through the <,> floor and i said we'll have a bit of a joke tonight cos we're on late weathers and robert would be going to bed early so any rate about oh i suppose half past nine or tenish i got a piece of number eight wire about six feet long and i had it straightened up it was beautifully straightened tut and it fitted into the hole where the drill was and it went right underneath the er this guy's bed and his wife and him were in bed er sleeping presumably and <{1><[1>i give a bloody big thrust up with this <&>11:00 wire two or three times very quickly and the someone help you know what's going on and you could hear the muffled voices down below in the cellar and he got out of bed and he said there's nothing under the bloody bed and she said there is this bloody bed moves so we waited for them to get back in and you could see a pin of light when the torch went over through the through the <,> floorboards tut so anyway <.>th they did get back into bed and settle down and we give them about ten minutes <.>and and er everything's quiet and bang bang again i struck and jesus they're both out of bed you hear bang bang bang bang both <.>b bloody feet climbed on the floor and they <.>a and the inquiry started <,> what is it and they they're going on and next thing the lights come on in the kitchen i thought <.>we we better get out of this now because if they come down here or they they wouldn't have dreamt there was a hole through the bloody floor but you know you never can be too careful when you're <{2><[2>amongst friends so we we drifted back and they were out there talking so that was all right the <&>12:00 night er went on uneventful weathers was <.>it next morning we're in the bloody power house nine oclock tut in come robert he he looked pretty tired and that and he come in and i said what's wrong with you he said oh nothing he said you wouldn't bloody well believe it if i told you and i said well what's happened now he said well voc tut you won't believe this i know but he said <,> irene and i were in bed and the next bloody thing he said the bed started to jump <,> move and i said what was what were you doing and he said we were asleep <.>he i said oh come on he said now i told you you wouldn't bloody believe me so i said now <.>c what <.>d actually did happen and he said well the bed was going up and down and he said and there was no no one <.>u i said oh come in come in listen we like stories but we don't want them too <.>br you know this is TOO <{3><[3>much and he sat there and he said no honest the bed actually was moving and i'll i'll get irene up she'll tell you and we got a torch and looked there was NOTHING under the bed there was NOTHING anywhere and the bed moved and he said this happened two or three times he <&>13:00 said it was <,> <.>q quite frightening so i said all <{4><[4>right okay it's another story i thought and <.>i you know he wouldn't know till this day that that we'd done that but um that was a part of it <.>y and and they'd put them on to me they you know i'd get a phone call in the middle of the night i'd get er many things done to me like it wasn't always one way traffic and sometime you'd think you're pretty good and the next thing you'd be <.>it it'd be your turn to be a <.>bit smarting under the action but <{5><[5>we er we er the tourists of course they made <.>o they they really made er made our day and er we had a deep well down in the tower at cape reinga and it was <,> when the power was there was no power tut and you had a your light was working under kerosene er er which is a pressure system incandescent pressure system you <.>wan wound the weight up and the weight revolved the voc the one and a half tonne lens and this used to go down a down a steep well about oh about thirty feet it was <&>14:00 twenty five three feet anyway tut i er and <.>w it it had water in it it had to be <.>r pumped out quite regularly tut and er some tourists were coming down the track this day and i happened to just come up from the fishing and the tower was open tut and i had one or two good sized snapper and i took one out of me bag and put a hook to its mouth put a line down and put it down the well tut so these people were there in fact <.>th they were poms and the joker said er oh what are you doing i said oh just getting a bloody fish for <,> dinner he said oh whereabouts and i said oh this goes right down to the sea through here i said that's a hole right into the sea and i said <.>th there's a bit of cave comes up there and i said you get the odd good fish there and while he's talking i give a like that and i <.>got started to pull this bloody fish up this bloody whole snapper and it was it was a <{6><[6>dead fresh it was about an eight pound snapper and i'm shaking the shit out of it and get getting it into a bag <{7><[7>and he said to his wife good god they've caught a fish in the well here and so <{8><[8>everyone comes in i winked at one or two locals you know people i knew i thought this can't go on but <&>15:00 this joker was so thrilled he wanted to know me name and wanted to get me photograph of me standing there with a dead snapper and he said oh god he said could i have a look down there and he said oh there's a a ladder down there too i said yeah it's just in case you get too big a fish you go down i said and get the get the gaff into him i said we get some pretty big buggers here good god and he took me photograph got me <{9><[9>address er jesus he you know the snapper he photographed about twenty times but that's just one of the things that <.>w would you know happen we used to get a lot of people come up there visitors and er we used to voc do our best to make them at home and er <.>i if if they really wanted to pitch a tent although it wasn't really on the books we'd say yeah go for your life whack a tent up and er on a nice night it was a nice place to stay but when it was blowy of course not so hot but this particular couple came up er or three er two women and a bloke two sisters and and one was married word and er i said to them well look <&>16:00 you're welcome to stay here the night but i said by jeez be careful of the wild pigs i said they're bloody mongrels round here i said they can you know word <.>said <.>they <.>she well she said what about your children i said no no they're always in bed at dark i said the pigs only come out at dark and er we had a a a a wild pig that's <.>t <.>ha partly tamed and the kids used to call it blackie and he was a beaut little thing and um so about they turned in and their lights went out in their tent and they had their camp all safe and set for the night and about <.>b just before midnight word half past ten eleven oclock tommy and arnie i said to tom we'll get the pig and i said when you're ready <.>just we'll creep up and you <.>o just open the fly and i'll let the pig go so er we got <{10><[10>the pig and i held its mouth word so it couldn't start squealing and tom had it round the guts and got to the fly of the tent and the and we threw the bloody thing in WELL <,> the a lady's voice screamed out there's a bloody pig in here and er shut up and he said shit there is and there's a torch <&>17:00 come on and HOLY mackerel it was like a <.>s film we're outside pissing ourselves <{11><[11>and there's a lady on one bunk standing up and a lady on the other bunk standing up and this joker's going get out you bastard get <{12><[12>out and this poor bloody pig this tame pig he couldn't bloody find a way to get out he couldn't get underneath the thing but any rate he got out in the finish because these buggers in the morning cos what a story the bloody pigs <{13><[13>the wild pigs they jesus i thought nah honestly it's just too much at times just too bloody much but um yeah they'd they'd left there they'd leave there and they'd go down to er er they come came from hamilton actually these people they'd go back down and say god did we get it up there <{14><[14>wild pigs and jesus you know the whole lot laughs <{15><[15>the <.>kid <[1>laughs <[2>laughs <[3>laughs <[4>laughs <[5>what word <[6>laughs <[7>laughs <[8>laughs <[9>laughs <[10>laughs <[11>laughs <[12>laughs <[13>laughs <[14>laughs <[15>bob used to make a lot of sake up there too you know and er we'd take all the scraps all the bread that we got brought up by the tourists we'd put them all into the rubbish that was left in the bottom of the sake um with the rice and sultanas and that and the pigs would get in and they'd start <.>i and they'd eat it eat all this and DRUNK they'd <&>18:00 get REALLY drunk they couldn't even stand on their back legs the poor old pigs and the roosters but not <.>th not the hens and not the female um pigs they could take their liquor could they <{><[>clears throat <[>they wouldn't touch it <{1><[1>they wouldn't <.>tou <{2><[2>oh they wouldn't touch it oh oh they were highly moral laughs laughs <[1>laughs <[2>no all the males all all the males laughs it'd do it but i must say this with this pig er the first time we got him drunk like er you know i i've been tipsy myself <&>pronounced as meself and you know the you know the effects and the feelings and you sometimes you wake up in the morning and think oh jesus <,> i won't do that again in a hurry but any rate we had a big medicine <,> chest there and there was some of the stuff was all expired a lot of it was expired stuff pills and that and i'll never forget it there was a thing called dover pills i've never heard of them since <,> tut they're a type of aspirin i think so we got the pig tut and he wasn't well so i got all the er little bottle and got ALL the dover pills and we opened his mouth tom and i and we got a bottle <,> milk and put all the pills in tut and opened his mouth and made him drink the <&>19:00 milk <,> the r s p c a'd <&>pronounced r s p say'd take a bloody dim view but the thing was this bloody old pig he went away and got <.>lou down behind the shed and slept all day and he was as fit as a buck rat in the morning so whether the pills did it or not i don't know but jesus given him about fifty pills i suppose what about hoons did you get um young youngsters intent on trouble up at the cape there yeah we did unfortunately but not a lot of them <.>they <.>th ninety nine percent of the people <.>m bloody MARVELLOUS you know you'd have a lot of fun with them and they were <.>s you know breath of fresh air a lot of people different ideas and things you hadn't heard of and this and that but one <.>a well it's a couple that come to mind these jokers were extremely cheeky boys and er tut we'd said to them like you know not to it's er we we didn't go for this sort of stuff and they said oh we're camping here and i said well really you're not supposed to camp here really i said <.>yo and you can't camp on the reserve and i said er te paki station don't allow campers <&>20:00