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• A Tip From A Child
• The Gnome Engineer

A boy entered a very busy tavern and sat at a table.

A waitress came by and asked, "What do you want?"

The boy asked, "How much is a fresh, hot biscuit?"

The waitress replied, "Fifty slag."

The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it.

The boy inquired, "How much is a day-old biscuit?"

Some people were now waiting for service, and the waitress was impatient.

She said angrily, "Thirty-five slag."

The little boy again counted the coins.

He said, "I'll have the day-old biscuit."

The waitress brought the day-old biscuit and walked away.

The boy finished, paid the barkeep, and departed.

When the waitress came back, she swallowed hard at what she saw.

There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, was one danar and five slag -- her tip.

There once was a Gnomish Herastian who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical.

After serving his lord loyally for over thirty years, he happily retired.

Several years later his lord contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem he was having.

One of his very expensive and complicated machines wasn't working and no one knew how to fix it.

The Gnome reluctantly took the challenge.

He spent a day studying the huge machine.

At the end of the day he marked a small "x" in chalk on a particular component of the machine and proudly stated, "Replace this part and the machine will work."

The part was replaced and the machine worked perfectly once again.

The lord received a bill for 50,000 coins from the Gnome.

The lord demanded an itemized accounting of his charges.

The crafty Gnome responded: "One chalk mark...1 slag. Knowing where to put it...49,999 slag."

The bill was paid in full.

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