And then another thing was. When he was at school and the cherry picking was around.

Buns up in Novrens that's where he used to go to do the milk and he had a great big orchard of cherry trees and he used to sell these cherries to a place in Birmingham.

And um, we used to go up there from after school and he had all these things tied up in the trees and you just call over to the bloat and scared the birds away and uh they used to pay us like that.

I should pay you half a crown a week for doing this.

So we used to run up from school to do this. Tell them what you used to do with the ducks.

Oh, with the ducks, Mrs.

Mrs. Pringle in the village. She, um, a lovely old lady she was and she, she used to have these ducks and at the back of her place it went out onto a little field and then down to the brook, and these ducks used to go down the brook and, uh, of course we used to play in the brook down there.

And uh you would hear a rattle in the tin calling these ducks.

So we used to say um. Mrs.

Pringle was trying to get the ducks. Hang on, keep them down there. So we, we keep them down the brook and then one of us had run up and say, you're looking for your ducks, Mrs.

Pringle? Yeah, she said, you wouldn't be such a good boy and go down and see if you can find them. I'll give you sixpence. She said, I'll give you 6p. She used to go down.

She run down the brook and say, Right, oh, let them go. And then they come up the road and she'd be back in the tin. They should give us sixpence.