After months on the stage at John Ware never understanding why we were there one November morning we were asked to pull the plastic drawers out of our desks and to listen carefully to the instructions before lining up and filing out we were told we were going to walk single file from John Ware to Nellie McClung with our desk drawers in our hands to ensure there would be no mix up of our books miscellaneous hardcover textbooks Ginn most certainly miscellaneous Dick and Jane and limp newsprint tablets and Pink Pearl erasers the teacher called rubbers and Eagle Mirado pencils because stick pens in black or blue were not permitted until Grade 4 when Mr. Young had Woodward's Department Store at Chinook order a box sold by the each at 19 cents each reminding the clerk we were Mr. Young's before continuing on with dollar forty-nine day and a dozen honey glazed or mixed produce in a bag we were told by Miss T...