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boys agreed that, in exchange, they
would help clean his shop.
Derek spent quite a bit of time
talking to the boys about safety and
was insistent that they follow the
rules to a T. But never once did he
talk about his thumb. I had assumed
he would use the accident as a
powerful example of what not to do,
but I decided he must be embarrassed
about it because he never mentioned
it.
Even with all of Derek’s
discussion of safety, it was all we
could do to keep the eighteen boys
out of trouble. Each time we worked
on the sled, there were more than a
