16 - Some dwarves bought the truck.
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And so I found pretty quick some dwarves who would
buy the diesel engine of the F250. I was waiting
around for them at the field behind my dad's place
where the truck sat, and finally they showed up
pulling a big sledge behind them, and a basket of
tools and some ropes and poles. And they had a lot
of helpers, I think I counted twenty of them.
They had this big huddle for a couple of minutes,
and they were muttering together for a while. Then
they got to it, and I've never seen anything like
it. The whole team of twenty just surrounded the
truck from all sides and started working, and I
kid you not, they had the body off the frame in
like five minutes. And in another five they had
the engine off the frame and onto their sledge.
And then they had another huddle for a minute, and
when they came out they indicated that they wanted
to take the frame and body too. Fine by me, it's
busted worse than I can fix.
So they hauled away the engine on their sledge,
and in a couple of hours they were back with an
even bigger one to carry the rest. They gave me
these cool little soft leather bags of gold nugget
and dust with "O" branded on them, and that was
that. If I can just get this stuff exchanged
somehow, I'm all set with dough for a while.