Wander00 (#9350),
...Oh the embarrassment!...
Recalls the time I went away to school at the tender age of 7. To assuage my homesickness, Mother had (privily) put in my school trunk my Teddy Bear (in his little striped flannel pyjamas !)
The practice (fairly universal, I would think) was that all trunks were delivered to a ground floor corridor, the owner would then open and tip the lot into his travel rug (which was part of his kit). Then the corners of the rug were brought together, and the "swag" bundle carried up two flights of stairs to the locker rooms and dormitories and kit stowed away.
So there, in full view of his new schoolfellows, was the small Danny with his even smaller Teddy atop the pile !
The horror of that moment in 1929 has never left me.
(Sorry, Mr Moderator, please indulge an old man once again).
Danny.