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Transcription: [00:06:03]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Still like doing it, huh?
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah, I still like it. Might be a mess if I don't, you know.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Is there an off-season time, or slow time for you guys for shucking?
[00:06:12]
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What's [[??]]
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
From July to November. Thats when we start slacking up.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And so you make up by--
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
In the winter time, we catch up again.
[00:06:22]

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
mm-hmm
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
[00:06:26]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Do most of your family shuck clams?
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
My sister, she down there, Mary Gross.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Mary's your sister?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah [[??]] Mary Gross.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay.
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah, she down there.[[??]] tell ya.[[laughs]]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. I didn't know that. Okay. How many oyster houses is there in the area?
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
On this side, just one.
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
And that's Denton's?
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
That's all.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
When you first started, how many was it?
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{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
There was a guy at [[??Deale??]] but I think he closed down, so we just got one now.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Where's that at?
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
All the way down at [[??Deales??]] Down Lusby.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
In Lusby? Oh, Okay.um.
[[??]]--shuking oysters?
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
[[??]]
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
What's the price for your supplies, your oyster knife, your gloves?
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
The apron is two dollar and the knife is five dollar. The buckets is free, you know, they furnish that. I only pay for the apron and the knife, that's all.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Why has the handles changed on the oyster knives? At one there was a wooden handle, now its a different.
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yea, no, I don't know why that changed. Can't never say, you know,[[??]] have some newer ones.
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Does it make a difference to you, which one you use, are you more used to--
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
[00:07:48]
I like this one now, the newer one
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
You like the new one better? [[laughs]]
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
[[laughs]]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay.Do most of the workers live in the area?
{SPEAKER name="Doris Harris"}
Yeah, right around here.