Skipper
Where do you want to go.
Come in. Pull up a chair.
Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.
Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.
The main drag of one of North America's oldest streets.
Water Street, running along the St. John's harbourfront, is described as one of the oldest streets in North America. It anchors a downtown of jellybean row houses, pubs, and shops, and pairs with Duckworth Street one block up the hill as the city's walking core.
Downtown St. John's: walk the length of Water Street along the harbourfront — with Duckworth one block up, it's the walking core of the city.
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Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.
Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.
Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.
He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.
No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.
Back up the road