Saltpeter And The Wolf

Saltpeter and the WolfSeated one day at the table next to a teenage nephew, I soon ran out of topics that bridged his generation and mine, and a painful silence settled over us both. Suddenly I thought of a subject that I knew we would have in common."At your school," I asked, "where do they put the saltpeter?"He brightened at the question. "It's usually in the mashed potatoes. Where did they put it at your school?""Our headmaster got up in the morning and put...