While my younger son, Jack, who's 10, has the standard array of stuffed animals, video games and the like, he has learned to
enjoy scavenging for «
toys» that the river provides — slabs that look like sabers from the «Lord of the Rings» films or perhaps a knotty ray gun from «Star Wars,» a crooked
wand from «Harry Potter,» the gnarled head of a serpent.