When I was 14 I was working with my father building a House--The Plummer was using lead in that shape-I(Borrowed?)A few Lbs of lead out of his pot--A nother worker told me to say it evaporated---Thats what I told Him--He did NOT believe me---It was quite a few years later before I realised Lead Does NOT do that--Then I realised I was the dumb one---So another time I was told to go buy a Bastard File Again I was wrong as I thought I was sent to go on a SNIPE HUNT by the Cabinet maker I was working for-I thought sure I was going to be Laughed at by the local hardware man but he brought one out and it Said Bastard on it----------Now does any one Know where it got that name---Now the nice? Old? Man who owns the hardware store Should? be able to tell us the Answer?
