A New Twist on an Old Tale.

When Betty Lou's son was just a tiny little lad, he asked his mother one day while sitting in the grocery cart in the middle of assorted sundries,

"Mommy, what's a peg leg?"

"A peg leg?" I repeated it back to him to ascertain that I had heard correctly.

"A peg leg," he repeated.

"Well, a peg leg is something a pirate might have. It means that someone has lost his leg and it has been replaced with a wooden stump so the person can still walk." And then, because I had to know why I asked him,

"Why did you want to know what a peg leg is?" In complete earnestness he looked up at me and said,

"It's from that poem ... you know ... about Santa ..." Huh? I didn't have a clue until he added as explanation -

"... a bundle of toys he had flung on his back and he looked like a peg leg just opening his pack."

The End.