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up their troubles in their old kit bags and....
Never Ending Story
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and they left for some important event that day......................
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which would forever change their lives because of some ones mistake involving.....
a tall, long haired, gentleman who was..
.........going,where did they go to, and where did they come from that day............
the morning after, confused and with a distinct odour...
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a family of trolls...
in the plumbing forum.....
The story introduces three male goats named Gruff of varying size and age, sometimes identified in the story as youngster, father and grandfather, but more often they are described as brothers. There is no grass left for them to eat nearest to where they live, so they must cross a river to get to a "sæter" (a summer farm in the hills), but the only way across is over a bridge that is guarded by a fearsome troll who eats any who pass that way. The youngest goat, knowing nothing of this, crosses the bridge and is threatened by the troll but is spared when he tells the troll that his brothers are larger and more gratifying as a feast. The middle goat sees that the youngest one has crossed and reaches the conclusion that the bridge must be safe after all, but when he crosses and the troll challenges him, he too tells him of his eldest brother. When the eldest and largest of them attempts to cross, the troll comes out to seize him but is gored by his horns and knocked into the river. From then on the bridge is safe, and all three goats are able to go to the rich fields around the summer farm in the hills.
but beware of the plumbers who are more cunning...
a humped backed, pigeon chested, split....
personality...