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Updated: May 17, 2025
So, with punches and hammers, they made counterfeit money. Then, in league with the elves, they began also to delude misers and make them believe that much money makes men happy. A long time after the mint had been built, two kabouters met to talk over their adventures. "It is wonderful what fools these creatures called men are," said the first one. "There's old Vrek.
"A jolly story," cried the kabouters in chorus. "Served him right. Now tell us about Vrek the miser. Go on." "Well, the saying 'Much coin, much care, is hardly true of him, for I and my trusty helpers ran away with all he had. With his first silver penny he began to hoard his money. He has been hunting for years for that penny, but has not found it.
He died, last night, and hardly anybody considers him worth burying. Some one on the street to-day asked what Vrek had left behind. The answer was 'Nothing he took it all with him, for he had so little to take." "That's jolly," said the older kabouter, who was a wicked looking fellow. "I'll get some fun out of this. To shrivel up souls will be my business henceforth.
It will be rather mouldy, should he find it, but that he never will." "Why not?" asked a young imp. "For a good reason. He would not pay his boatmen their wages. So they struck, and refused to work. When he tried to sail his own boat, it toppled over and sunk, and Vrek was drowned.
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