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old it just disappeared. It had been down there for years. They had a factory down there at English Lookout
Guerin: What did they make at that factory?
LaFrance: Oysters. That?s where the mail boat would come in. I can?t remember that factory. So, anyhow, this schooner must have come to that factory delivering oysters. Anyhow, I hooked this thing, and we just couldn?t get loose of it. We pull and see-saw, pull and see-saw, pick it up, pick up and almost sink the back of it, and pull and pull. I had a boy working with me, a deck hand, Jerry, and he hollered to me, ?We moving it, not much but we moving it? So I noticed the bank and I could see us moving, just a little bit. So I tried to pick it up and couldn?t get it up. So anyhow, they had a guy in there -Dean - he was in there shrimping with his little boat, He said, ?Wait a minute, I?ll pick up and come back and help you.? And he did. He went down the river and picked up and he come back and took his winch and he hooked to it too and he pulled it, kinda back, and we set it on the back of this boat, on the platform of the boat. And we come back to the house with it, and I said I don?t know how I?m going to get it off. So, I backed the boat up to the wharf, and I went and got the truck at the house, and I hooked to it and I pulled it of on the ground.
Guerin: It?s about five feet tall. It must weigh a few hundred pounds.
LaFrance: I imagine that it did. It?s about half ate up. It had no barnacles on it.
Guerin: It must have been down in the mud.
LaFrance: Yeah, it must have been in the mud.
Guerin: When did you find it?
LaFrance: I bought the boat in ?53. It must have been sometime in the ?60?s.
Guerin: Tell me again about the boat.
LaFrance: There was a fellow had a camp, Charley Hills. He told me about this boat.
They used to go fishing on this boat. So he told me, he said, ?Poss, I know a man down at Shell Beach. He?s got a fine boat.... The boat?s just been tied up there about a year.? So, I got my brother-in-law, Alphonse Dorn, and went down to Shell Beach, We saw the boat and found the old man, and went and talked to him. I asked him if he wanted to sell it and he said ?yes? and he went with us and we went down and looked at it It was dried out and had been setting there. It had a six-cylinder Chrysler engine in it, an old engine. He said that the boy had changed the oil in it He cranked it up. So, I said, ?How much do you want for it?? He said, ?I want $3,500 for it.? I said, ?Mister, I?m sorry. I?m going to tell you the real truth, now. I got $3,500 on me, but I?ve got to have money for gas. Now if you want $3,200 for it, I?ll take it right now.? But he said, ?No. I can?t take that. I?ve got to have $3,500.? I said, Well, if I give you $3,500,1 wouldn?t have no money to put
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