Dooby The Ferret

There was six of us, Bob MacLeod, Pete Reesdorf, Dooby, Ike Friesen and Joe Squark and myself. We went down to this one warehouse and we had to load these jute bags that are tied in bundles about so high into a boxcar. Well, when we got into any warehouse we had to find out what it was and Dooby wasn’t always too well so we put Dooby in behind the sack, the stack to find out what was in the warehouse and he came out and he said, “Those bags have sugar in them, in the corners.” So he stayed there all day opening up bundles before we got to them taking the wet sugar out of the corners and putting it in our loot bags. We worked in there for two days. Most of the bags that went into the second day’s cars were cleaned out of any sugar that was in the corner and we got that back safely into camp. Even the fellows in hospital benefited by some of it. We, most everybody in our dockyard gang got it, none of the Americans, they had their own area to filter but the Canadians shared in it and a large amount of it went over to the hospital to Will Campbell and Dr. Stewart for the patients. Now it was dirty but it was still sugar.