Juggelby Bungleton abandons a land of want for a land of plenty, only to find it is less and more than what it seems...
The Bungletons live in The Geldings, a small village on the coast of Eidolon. Hilda, an antique dealer in the middle of a slow season, comes across an advertisement while reading The Gelding Quotidian, their local newspaper. A rich old man in Gradighed, in the city of Rathunas, is offering an unusually large sum of money for an antique chest. Basil comes home and gives Hilda the bad news: his place of employment is shutting down. Work is scarce. Times are tough. Something must give. Basil is sick of gruel and seeks to drown his sorrows in a feast. Hilda seeks to accommodate him. She searches the pantry and finds not a crumb of food, but she finds something else, something she doesn't remember being there, under a pile of boxes: an antique chest. It meets exactly the description in the advertisement. She writes the old man and the old man writes back, inviting her family to the land of plenty, and even paying their way in advance. With their son Juggelby, they're off to Rathunas...
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