[Gondring]

When an elderly relative of mine was interviewed a few years ago by a high-school student, he was explaining how mumbledy-peg is played. He started with, "well, you take your pocket knife..." and I'm not sure who was more shocked--the kid, that my relative had carried a knife in school--or my relative, that any of the boys now don't carry a knife.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

I always carried at least one knife to school. A girl I knew carried a pistol her father gave her. That was in Madison, WI, in the late 1980's. I've still got that knife in my pocket right now - a little 3" blade mounted on a polished antler handle.