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"Grr, it's morning again!" said Baren, and looked through the window. It was still dark outside.
His wife was still sleeping next to him.
Baren always wakes up early, when he goes to the mine. Today was his third and last day in this week but he haven't found any gold
pieces, which made him disappointing.
"Today I will found the gold alone! I won't trust anyone. They always betray me!" thought Baren while he put on his green trousers and shirt.
"I can do it" repeated himself again and again and finally he believed it.
After covering his clothes with a long grey cloak and a hat he set out for the mine.
He was the last one who arrived to the mine. There were six other dwarfs waiting
for him in the same cloak as Baren had on.
Guessing the others aim was impossible.
"So finally everybody is here can we go down to the mine?"
said one of them who was the boss yesterday.
"Oh, no it's still so early. Why don't we stay here having a breakfast?" asked another dwarf.
The others looked him angrily so he gave up, packed his eggs and went down to the mine.
The others followed him deeper and deeper down in the mine. Baren lit the candle inside his lantern and watched what the others were doing.
One of them blocked their way immediately then disappeared in the shadow laughing devilish.
"Oh, the saboteur" cried the others. A small group of them tried to make a way on the left side of the block.
Baren picked out secretly a piece of paper from his cloak. The right part of the map. And there was a gold on it.
Baren was happier than ever in the last two days.
He know the way, and the others went to the wrong direction.
"I will win, I am sure" said he to himself.
Only one of the other dwarfs followed him. They dug as fast as they could.
"A crystal" cried the other dwarf.
"Don't care with the crystals, come and dig for the gold!" said Baren
but he know when he continued the digging the other one hid the crystal
under his cloak.
"A geologist" thought Baren. "Better than a sabotuer."
But at next moment he felt someone's clench on his arm. He was jerked to a small hole and door closed behind him loudly.
Baren was in prison. He sat down to a smaller stone. Suddenly he felt how tired he was.
A moment later Baren decided to change his useless piece of map and a lamp-repairer-set to a key of his prison.
But before he could do that someone teared off his cloak and green clothes and forced him to pick up another set of that.
He look himself in the light of the lamp. He was in blue.
Only a second later he was free, and rushed towards further in the tunnel. But suddenly he found himself in front of a green door.
He looked to his new blue clothes under his cloak, turned back and run as fast as he could.
He saw rockfalls, blocks next to the way. In one of the blind alley he saw some fried eggs. But there were nobody.
At last he found a ladder. Climbed down and flew toward the gold. There he mounted his ladder climbed up and looked around.
There were nobody else. He overtook the others. The dwarf picked up his pickaxe and a few minutes later he reached gold.
Soon the others arrived. Everybody took off their cloak. Baren was surprised.
There was two saboteurs, one geologist and three green dwarf. He won alone!
"I won five gold pieces" he cried. And it was more than what the others
had collected during the last two day.
This afternoon Baren was the happiest dwarf in the world.
"Next time I should be a saboteur" he thought while he was going home to his wife.
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