<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>1:22 a situation in which you were in danger of death i was out hunting once <,> and i was standing on this overhanging <,> bit of bush about two hundred feet up and <.>i sort of went down on thirty degrees and then it went vertical is this thing going probably yeah it is <.>and and i <.>d it fell away and i fell down and i was scooting down there on my arse you know and i thought this is it i've had it and i stopped just on the edge of the vertical bit <,,> and i thought well there you go eh well when i was shepherding in sniffs <,,> tut hawkes bay <,> i worked for a guy by the <&>2:00 name of john singleton and he had an eight hundred acre place there in the COAST <,,><&>3 and the coast block <.>went i don't know it was probably about <,,><&>3 nine hundred feet above sea level cos it went right down to the sea you know and <.>sh it went straight up and it was all raggy and with slips and it was all that papa stuff and he used to put his hoggets out there in the winter time and the neighbour of john and i and i was a shepherd at that time <,,> we'd go out there just before <,> you know kind of spring and er get all these hoggets and he used to have about oh eight or nine hundred hoggets down there and i was the silly clown i got the fucking middle part you know to go <.>a along the middle mm and that's and the fat boy he went along the top the neighbour and john went along the bottom along the beach you know and the rocks and that and i was going up and down like a laughs <&>3:00 jack rabbit you know just <,,><&>3 like and i climbed up this ridge <,> and er i don't know where my <.>d oh i only had one dog that's right tut and my dog was over the other side of this i climbed straight up this ridge and it just got seemed to get steeper and steeper <.>and and er and then all of a sudden the the sort of WEEDS and all the vegetation and that because there was there wasn't really much of it down there that all finished and got all shaly and i thought oh i'll just climb a BIT more you know and i'll be able to get over and <.>down down the other <.>s sort of side and i got TRAPPED and i couldn't go up and i couldn't go down and i looked down and i <.>thought and it was just like <,> oh mate it was just unREAL you know and i'd just climbed myself into a corner yeah and i just sat there <,,> just sort of hung on cos it just went straight up just sort of like this like yeah like this you know and i sort of i couldn't go any further and er oh i never forget this and then i i started to back down just like really slowly and then i started <&>4:00 sliding and i was just just hung on just <{><[><&>makes scraping sound all the way down you know <[>clears throat sam and i went round the er <,> coast word and we thought we'd go over the hills <,> and drop down in and so <.>we looked at the map and there was a fairly big creek and we sort of staggered up this creek it was a bit steep you know <{><[>steadily got steeper <&>telephone rings and obscures speech it started getting going and it started getting really really GORGEY and there was these BIG LOGS like you know <,> <.>t <.>b bit rounder than me about two feet off the ground couldn't quite get under them you had to go over them you know and it taked about half an hour to get over each one of these things and they were all slippery and there was about two feet of water running down this thing and <,> tut yeah that was a real grovel and we got up the top <,> walk over the top and i must have been a creek the creek further DOWN than i thought it was i thought oh i'll go up there cos nobody'll go up there and i get over the top and i come out and there's a bloody track there <,> been walking up about <,> four hundred feet away <&>5:00 from this track and the track was on the map and i thought no everyone will go up the track no one will go there and i thought i was about you know voc half a mile further away from the track and i was only about three hundred feet away from it <[>oh mm so that's a trap for young players <,,><&>3 the um i was in the <,> sniffs in the bush i went in at night tut and i was trying to find this track you know <.>the it was just like the um you know they get bits of old venetian blind little square bits and nail them on the trees i'm walking along there with my torch and there's been big slips and that i couldn't see you know where i was going or going along there looking at my map and looking at thing and every now and then i come across one of these things nailed on a tree and oh yep she'll be right <,> clears throat then i came out and i'm going through this big long stretch of supplejack and i couldn't find a track i couldn't even find anything that looked like people had BEEN there you know yeah and so i double back and i got back to the last mark and i went out again looked around couldn't find anything went back to the last mark looked around couldn't find anything went out oh shit i'm getting lost so anyway about ten oclock at <&>6:00 night so i sniffs got out my sleeping bag and rolled it up in the groundsheet went to sleep on the side of this bank lying on a log get up the next morning and turn around and the log i'm lying on there's this bit of venetian blind nailed to it i thought well bugger me laughs it's funny how the bush can er <,> play tricks on you mate <,,> it's really my dad and my uncle were lived at manapouri and they were hunting you know and it was at night and they thought oh we'll go go for a couple more hours you know it's just sort of the seven oclock in the winter just starting to get dark <,> and my uncle walked about ten feet out and he said oh no stuff it we'll <,> set up camp so he wandered back where my dad was to set up the camp next morning they looked in the in the dirt you could see the mark where they'd walked and he'd walked RIGHT up to about three inches away from this kind of three hundred foot cliff just straight down eh in the dark no torch or anything <&>7:00 no he was bloody lucky he he didn't even know it was there you know could have just as easily taken one more step and gone off the edge eh yeah that's what happened to us and me and um guy by the name of rawiri simpson we went out to his father's farm which is RIGHT at the back of porangahau yeah and er <,,> then we hopped on the <{><[>word hopped onto his pardon me hopped onto his bikes <,,><&>3 and er <,,> it was about three quarters of an hour out the back you know <,,> er it was on the bikes and then we got there and then we er had a look through all this we were hunting possums just laying poison and that <[>burps laughs and er we got to the edge of this place and we lay all this poison and then we walked into the BUSH <{><[>there and it's just you're a grubby cunt aren't you <[>burps laughs <{><[>laughs <[>you really are fancy burping like that laughs <&>8:00 anyway er we walked and there's like the bush is like really all CLEAN underneath and the trees the trees are like SCRATCHED with these bloody possum traps yeah this is honest <,,> you can laugh all you like <{><[>laughs <[>laughs and they're just scratched and there's just cyn everywhere mate and i thought oh we'll make a cleanup here you know we'll get two or three hundred of these bloody things and we lay we laid this cyanide all over the place mate <{1><[1>with jam and flour and and <{2><[2>spent about two hours didn't lay any any traps <,> all in the bush and word and we were in there for ages and ages and we turned around to go out <[1>sniffs <[2>yeah sniffs voc and i thought where the <{1><[1>bloody hell am i <{2><[2>you know <[1>sniffs <[2>laughs yeah <&>sniffs and spits right so we climbed up a tree and we could you know just get over the canopy and that and then uh uh here we go and away you go you know get that way <&>9:00 sniffs i think because you get so intense in what you're doing yeah <,,><&>3 when i was working for my brother with the pest board we um <,> had like a jam gun you know you go along and you stamp it on the ground and it squirts out a little bit of jam sniffs and there's <,> like a paddock on each side and there's rows of pine trees down the middle you know and i walked down one row of pine trees and leave about eight oclock in the morning and twelve oclock lunchtime stopped and had lunch and jeez where the bloody hell am i you know the first time out there and i'm just sort of wandering along thinking oh that'd be a good place to put some so i walk off over there and put some there and <,> yeah and i <{><[>turned around shit <[>you know how many possums we got that night <&>crash obscures speech how many seven i think it was oh yeah out of that poison not one of them not not one of them <,> sniffs and they were they were on the on the fenceline where they <.>gr went into the grass you know <,> <{><[>you <[>did you read that book <&>10:00 you got to be really careful with that stuff mate <{1><[1>shit word <{2><[2>word <[1>yeah <[2>barry crump about that bloke in um tut oh <.>they he wasn't in his camp so they followed him out and there was big piles of cyanide everywhere going off into the bush laughs and he's at and he's at the end of it he poisoned himself yeah the old heart rate just <.>goes yeah took <.>this er what do they call them amyl nitrate <,> they're like er glass capsules about that long and you carry them with you all the time in a little tin tube in a tin case rather <{1><[1>like that you just open them up and you get these and you wrap a hanky round them and just snap them like that and put them up to your nose and it increases your heart rate just like exPLODES it just about and er give you enough time mind you if you're out in the back blocks and <.>you you get it bit the size of a pea it could kill you you know the size of <.>your <{2><[2>half the size of your little <{3><[3>fingernail it would bowl you over <[1>yeah <[2>yeah <[3>sniffs we used to use this stuff that reacted with <&>11:00 liquid carry it in a tin little pellets and you chuck them down a rabbit burrow this was on the pest board <{1><[1>you chuck them down a rabbit burrow and you fill the <,> face in sniffs and what happens is it reacts with the liquid in the burrow and it lets off a gas and the rabbit tries to dig out and cos it's digging its way out it increases it's heart rate and breathing and breathes it all in and by the time he gets out in the fresh air he sort of dies and you come along and there's all these bits where sniffs you know there's this <{2><[2>rabbit word <[1>yeah <[2>oh i always wondered why they did that i watched the rabbit board guys do that yeah block the hole off <,> put this stuff down it yeah oh yeah quite funny cos we had one you know i mean we came along a couple of days later voc and you could see the rabbit JUST broken through and was sitting in the hole dead as a door nail mm sniffs and then the next subject is your first girlfriend sniffs mm i remember my first girlfriend she was twenty five and i was twelve and she learned really fast <{><[>laughs <&>12:00 <[>laughs yeah my first one she was er eighteen and i was fifteen <,> and then we got caught by the father <{><[>laughs i had to hide under the bed <,,> and er exhales <[>laughs i had that happen to me once i went round to this sheila's house for tea you know and just obviously she made quite a nice meal and had a meal and you know talking away there and one thing leads to another and <,> was on the you know like the second story and there's this clonk clonk clonk up the stairs oh shit my father oh shit sniffs yeah sniffs quite amusing that sort of thing but being a potential s a s member i managed to get out of the <{><[>situation he never knew i was there yeah <[>laughs oh yeah oh yeah yeah yeah and <.>then we'll forget that one and then your worst holiday job <,,> i never work when i'm on holiday laughs <{><[>laughs inhales yeah your worst holiday job <&>13:00 <[>i just sit around and do nothing i was in whakatane burps when you were at school didn't you <.>not do any work when you were on holiday oh i was working all the time then when i was at school mowing lawns delivering papers sniffs tut painting things yeah i went on holiday in whakatane when i left school for a couple of months i went all round the country on my bike and i went up there and i got a job with a cocky sniffs mustering that's quite good learned heaps <&>crashing noises in background eh i went along there and i didn't know anything you didn't have your worst one no i didn't have a worst one no i used to enjoy my <,> little jobs i know the most boring one was when we were er <,> i got this job at seaview <,> painting the er sniffs pipes that go from the petrol tanks you know <,,><&>3 like <.>the the big er bulk tanks to er where they deliver them and that <{><[>and just painting them silver tut day after day after day mate just with a paint brush and bit of silver can of silver paint <,,> MATE that was BORING as <&>14:06 <[>yeah