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A School Day memory!  trouble at school!

2/28/2017

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 "The trouble with a new knife is...the great need to use it!
Christmas time brought a new knife to Tom Dodd, Jr.  It was a wonderful gift. A boy could do all sorts of great things with a knife.  He could whittle, play mumbletypeg, skin a squirrel, clean a fish,  and carve.
It also brought some business at school with Miss Sadie Littlegreen .  You see, when Tom went to the boys outhouse he could not resist taking out his knife and making a carving   in the wall.
The next day, Miss Sadie called him to her desk and asked, "Tom did you get a new knife for Christmas?"  "Yes" and then he bragged, "a Barlow." "Did you carve your initials in the boys outhouse?" she asked.  " Miss Sadie had me so I admitted I did.  I spent the next several days after school sanding and removing my monogram off the boys outhouse."   Tom Dodd, Jr.
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