This present that I got from my parents really sticks in my memory:

An electric train, I think it cost a lot of money back then. I begged for it because other kids was havin' them. My father wasn't making much money then, the weather was bad, they couldn't get out fishing much. Fisherman have it hard in the winter months, even way back then. And I finally got my electric train, a Lionel train, it ran on three tracks, a triple track. And I had it six months and one day my father went to sea, and then the kids were all getting bicycles, so I traded the train for an older bicycle, boy was he mad at me. I didn't live that down for a long time, because the train was worth way more than a bicycle.