And old wooden clipper ships! Those that weren't lost at sea ended their days hauled off to some back marsh and burned so the scrap iron could be more readily salvaged.

Of course my great grandfather made his living collecting scrap and rags from the farm families outside of Cleveland, while selling them new jars, bottles, needles & thread, and hardware items. Back in Lithuania he had been trained as a saddle-maker but found little use for his talents in the part of the New World he washed up on.

Charley Noble