Warren I checked the "A to Zax" dictionary at the library, and found that "cordwinder" is just a dialectical version of "cordwainer" -- they both mean the same thing, a shoemaker. By the way, remember your virus warning? > Sender: Hahaha > Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story! Well, I got that message just the other day. I deleted it unread because I thought it was just SPAM advertising for child pornography. I would have deleted it unread anyway, but oh well. Still no word on what the funny story was about General Washington and the shoemakers, but I did find a book at the library, "Supplying Washington's Army," by Erna Risch, Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D.C., 1981. I find in this book that the whole shoemaker thing was just plain chaotic. Washington and the Continental Congress tried all sorts of ways to get shoes onto the feet of the Army, all or most of which seem to have failed. They even tried importing shoes from France, but as you might expect, deliveries were super-late, and the French shoes fell apart all to flinders within a day or two anyway. Whatever they tried, they always wound up back at square one. Kinda like me. Sigh. Lester Powers lesterps@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.