Pete,

Everyone carried a pocketknife when I was a child. It was always coming in handy, to cut into a crab-apple, for example, before you dipped it into a palmfull of salt and downed it, or just whittling on a stick, or infinite other applications. The most common and reasonably priced brand was made by the Barlow company. You could get them almost everywhere, too. My grandmother stocked them in her store, as did the other merchants I was aware of. My dad always had one in his pocket.

Hedy