This MacDonald family made their living from selling and mending tin wares. Two males, female and two children sitting outside entrance to bow tent. "A lot o' travellers in that time made their own tin. You can imagine then there were no plastics. I think it was Greenock, they used tae send for the sheets ... Used tae get quite a few sheets. They paid fur that an' took it back ... they had their stake, it's like a bit o' iron ... laik an anvil thing ... that's how they made their pails, cups an' dishes ... dish basins. An' they used tae go round the farms. They soldered them, an' a lot o' them seamed them."
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Questions
- How did the Macdonald family make their living?
- He uses the work 'laik'. What is it in English?
- Where did they get their iron and tin from?