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.