Joyce, Thanks for reminding me to send my previous message to the list. Here it is: There are a lot of us who remember the peddlers who toured the countryside in years gone by. I remember two of them who came by our house once or twice a week back in the 1930s and 1940s. Mr. Forrest Poole and Mr. Farris Davis, both of whom owned grocery stores in Adams, Robertson County, TN, also ran peddler trucks. We always looked forward to "Peddler Day." Quite often, Mama would pay the peddler with eggs. Also, once a man came by selling porch swings. Mama bought two of them and paid for them with chickens. Does this system of bartering ring a bell with anyone out there? I used to hull walnuts in the fall and sell them to the peddler - yes, peddlers are one of the special memories for us oldtimers. Betty