Power Saw

As a big-city school teacher, I became familiar with the importance my students placed on such things as roller skates, stereophonic radios and record players, and ten-speed bicycles.

But when I moved to the mountains to teach in a tiny country school, I found I had a lot more to learn.

One of my Grade VII students pleaded with me to give him good marks. “If you don’t, ” he told me miserably, “I know Pa will take away my portable power saw.”