Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...

[Fred Munro]

I expect all the members of this illustrious list are well read and smarter
than the average citizen, Kneale :o)

Fred
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kneale Brownson" <knotnook at traverse.com>
To: "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>; <one at humanspeakers.com>; "rob hod"
<rob3 at hod3.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...


> --
> At 06:39 PM 02/15/2002 -0500, Fred Munro wrote:
>
> >Now that was a good story, Huw! I've never heard anyone mention it, but
have
> >thought about it now and then when stranded in the bush by broken down
> >snowmobiles or other misfortunes. I've never built a fire under a tree
since
> >reading that cautionary tale as a pre-adolescent youth!
> >Obviously you are a well read fellow....
>
> Didn't ALL us more mature folks read that story in our youth?  I recall it
> being something I read in association with school.  I generally don't
build
> fires (ever since my little brother set the house on fire by putting a
> candle in a box to "light up" the windows he'd cut in it), but I've
thought
> about that tale every time I've driven in a snowstorm.
> --
>