Thank you. Always wondered about what it was and never checked. "Mary gave him a bran-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of d

Thank you. Always wondered about what it was and never checked. "Mary gave him a bran-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations. True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a "sure-enough" Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that - though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury, is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer