00:09Why I don't exactly call it work. You know what work is. You don't. Why work's doing something you have
00:19to do. When you're doing something that you want to do, you like to do, that's play.
00:26Now, a good many years ago, I don't like to tell you quite how many, but, well, I was born
00:33in the first half of the last century, so you can guess how old I am. I work. And now
00:39I'm in the, uh, pretty well along in the next century. And now I exercise a little, but I don't
00:47call it work. I don't call this work. Why, this is play. You see how nice that is?
00:55You see many things happen, change in your day, Mr. King?
00:58Oh, yes, yes, yes. We live in a world of change. The trees are just the same as they were
01:06when I was a boy, only larger. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
01:12But when I was a boy, we didn't have the telegraph and we didn't have the telephone, of course, nor
01:17the electric lights, nor any of these other things which have come up to bother us and help us.
01:26Oh, well, they help us. I suppose it's all right. But then, the good old days were pretty good. Pretty
01:33good. Don't you boys think that you're living in just the best time in the world's history? It's for a
01:40straight. But it's no better than our fathers had, and I don't believe it's very much better than our grandchildren.
01:46Thank you. Do you drive in a car much, Mr. King?
01:51Do I ride in a car much? Oh, no, no, no, not very much. I'm too old to get a
01:57license, and haven't known enough and quick enough to drive. But I do ride in a car every once in
02:05a while.
02:07And there's a change, talking about cars. When I was a boy, about 14 years old, I wasn't very well,
02:14and my father took me over the mountain, right over the Catskill Mountains.
02:18We went 50 miles out to a boarding school, old-fashioned boarding school. And I was one of the youngest
02:27ones, but we went out with a horse and buggy. Took us all day.
02:32And when I wanted to come home, come in an old-fashioned stagecoach with four horses or six or eight,
02:39hung on straps, rock and shake. And I had quite an experience going back and forth.
02:46And then after 50 years, I wanted to see the old place again. My son took me out. Started about
02:519 o'clock from home, about half past 10 we were out there, and visited a couple of hours, and
02:56then thought we'd come home by the way of Kingston, and got home long before sundown.
03:00That's the difference between yesterday and today.
03:10Yes, yes, that's Hudson over there. Nice little city. Not much larger now than it was when I was a
03:19boy. Too many changes come over the little city, though, in the river this side.
03:28Why, I remember very well, looking out of my window, I would see anywhere from 10 to 20, hardly ever
03:35less than 10, sailing vessels on the river.
03:39Now I don't see more than one in three months. Very few steamboats. Everybody went to New York then. If
03:45they wanted to go in Duluth style, why, they'd take a steamboat.
03:51If they wanted to go cheap, they'd go on one of our river sloop. Yes, Hudson, Hudson is about the
03:59same as it was when that Hudson River Railroad first went through.
04:03It, uh, it, uh, shows the marks. Yes, there was a man killed there and blasting, and the blast holder
04:14there still, quite many years ago.
04:17And now that's slow. Now the railroad's slow. Slow. Just now, this afternoon, going right up over here, I saw,
04:25I guess, a dozen airplanes going back and forth all the time.
04:30And how long will it be, do you think, before that'll be sure? Get to be a goody sureer than
04:34I am, uh, digging out these weeds.
04:37If you don't stop talking to me and bothering me and getting me to tell about old, old-fashioned times,
04:42why, I'll never get the weeds out.
04:44Well, never mind. Never mind. I want to play tomorrow. What we don't do today, we can do tomorrow.
04:52Good night.
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