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Ah...so That explains why we find marbles in privies! I simply thot,
some fell out of someone's pocket...as they sat. ??
I really didn't think the kid was putting a live cartridge on the train
track...to flatten. I would think they simply picked up spent
shells...and used those.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Ron May
>Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:56 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: of railroad spikes and such
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>In a message dated 8/6/2007 11:38:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight
>Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
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>Perhaps as punishment. Many years back, I had the fun of
>working with toy marbles and delivered papers at various
>conferences on hand made and machine made marbles. I received
>lots of comments back from people who played marbles as kids,
>as adults, in the military, and then got their kids and
>grandchildren started. Several people reported their stern
>mothers punished them by dropping their cherished marble bags
>down the privy (where they were sure not going to dig to
>recover them). The late Paul Schumacher loaned me a collection
> he reported recovered from a privy in Half Moon Bay,
>California. And, Gary Breschini and Trudy Haverstat loaned me
>a collection to photograph they also found clustered together
>in a privy. So, based on these known examples, I would suggest
>that a parent could have punished the kid by dumping his
>railroad spike and train-flattened bullet shell collection in
>the dump. Heck, I could easily imagine a parent horrified to
>learn the kid was out flattening bullet shells with trains
>running past at high speed; fear of lost eyes or worse.
>
>Ron May
>Legacy 106, Inc.
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