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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2810050, member: 10461&quot;]<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/The_third_gift_%E2%80%94_an_enormous_hammer_by_Elmer_Boyd_Smith.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">One day, the smith forged a hammer that was to be used at the mint.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Everyone told him it was too big.&nbsp; Surely no one could wield such a hammer!</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Except perhaps that big, beefy farm lad they called Lugh the Log-Roller.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">But the smith would not listen.&nbsp; </font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">He made the huge hammer anyway.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">And indeed, no one at the mint could even lift it well, let alone bring it down upon the dies with any accuracy.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">So they called for Lugh the Log-Roller.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">And they gave him the mighty hammer.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">And he struck the dies with a tremendous, crashing bang.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">The glistening gold stater fell hot from the dies.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">From that day henceforth, Lugh the Log-Roller would become known instead as Lugh Hammerfist&nbsp; or Lugh the Coin Crusher.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">And it was good.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">The End.</font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="3">(Until much, much later, when someone with a metal detector came along ... and then panzerman.)</font></font></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></i></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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