A Living Craft

HE is a carpenter,a genius carpenter.He became fascinated with woodwork at an early age,his first"product"a bowl chiseled out from a crude block of wood.He ate from it often.He would talk to trees,foretelling their destinies.Once he told a tree that it would be made into a cabinet and a table of a certain breadth and height.When the landowner really did decide to make the tree into a cabinet and a table one year later,he said:’That’s what I thought last year.Now,it’s big enough for an additional two chairs,too."He was right.He had learned the art of carpentry,and soon outshone his master.His sharp eye meant he could saw and shape timber with