[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Years ago I read a book (TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST) in which an old sailor tells the young author to keep his knife in a pork skin scabbard. It will never rust.

It will also keep away moslems.

[OldSmaj]

Years ago I read a book (TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST)

And here I thought I was the only person in the world to have read that book.

I was about 9 or so when I read it, it having been recommended to me by Miss Bonnie, the librarian of the local community library.

Much of who I am and what I later became was shaped by the books she placed in my young hands.

Thanks for the memories.