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IT ALL STARTED ON THE DAY OF My [OTH BIRTHOAY BACK HOME IN GLASGOW! MY FATHER GAVE ME A SHOESHINE KIT THAT HE'O MADE HIMSELF! WHERE DID I GET THE SYMBOL OF my ENTIRE FORTUNE? I EARNED IT, OF COURSE! SORRY TO DISAPPOINT YOU, BOYS, BUT THAT'S A PRETTY BULL STORY! POPPA WORKED HARD ALL HIS LIFE, BUT WE WERE PQG@ AS CHURCH MICE! T WANTED TO HELP HIM SUPPORT MA ANO My TWO LITTLE SISTERS! I REMEMBER THAT DAY LIKE YESTERDAY! MY FIRST SHOESHINE CUSTOMER WAS A D/TCHOIGGER! TT TOOK ME HALE AN HOUR TO CHIP THE ORIED MUD OFF HIS BGOTS! ey ZON THE OTHER HAND, COULD TELL THEM WHAT WOULD MAKE THAT OME REALLY SPECIAL! IF IT BELONGED TO MAGICA DE SPELL, a YES “NCA SCROOGE” ~_ TELL THEM MORE: ONLY Z KNOW HOW TO MELT THAT COIN IN_THE SULFUROUS FIRES OF MT. IT INTO A MAGIC AMULET! IVE TRIED FOR YEARS TO STEAL THAT DIME] BUT SCROOGE IS TOO OLD AND CRAFTY! #SIGH!< TF ONLY I COULD CHALLENGE ~_HIM SEFAREHE GOT SO SLY!) > “y TIME TRAVEL \S A TOUGH SPELL) BUT I BOUGHT SOMETHING AT A’ NECROMANCERS' RUMMAGE SALE THAT WILL DO THE JOB! 7 TLL NEVER COME UP WITH A BETTER USE S FOR IT! ALL INEED ARE SOME ITEMS TO TELL THE CANDLE WHERE, WHO, AND WHE/ IWISH TO VisIT! THAT AMULET WOULD GRANT ME THE POWER OF THE AUDAS TOUCH... BUT QNLY IFAT CONTAINS THE FIRST COIN | OWNED BY THE WORLD'S RICHEST, (f HERE ITIS.....A 7/ME CANDLE! THE BANKRUPT WARLOCK WHO SOLO IT TO me SAID IT HAS THE POWER TO SEND ME TO ANY TIME IN THE PAST FOR ONE WOU? FOR THE WAU? THAT THIS CANOLE BURNS, ILL BE LIVING ON SCROGGE MCDUCK'S 107TH BIRTHORY! 300G!s WHAT A STENCH! MY SORCERY SHOP IS SPINNING +. . THE WALLS ARE GETTING BLuRRY .-. HMMM... IM ATTRACTING ATTENTION! TO BETTER DISGUISE MYSELF! THIS WATCH WILL TELL ME WHEN My HOUR RUNS OUT! NOW ALL T HAVE TO IF ONLY I COULD HAVE AFFORDED WME L1GHTBULE THAT THE WAR VIOLA! NOW I GAN PASS AS A NATIVE UNTIL My MISSION OF LARCENY IS COMPLETED! ~ Oo CK WAS SELLING! 300F!e 4” 2AHEM!s WHUT AH MEAN, U'IL LADY, AMER YESM! AH MADE YOU BOASTFUL HICK! T THET AHA ONE ATHEM AUCH, KNOW A Is. GANS, PURT’ NEAR A CERTAIN OUCK YUH HEAR SO (MUCH ABOUT! MILLION BUCKS IN _\ WHO MAKES YA/LOOK THE CALIFORNY GOLD LIKE A BUMS RUSH BACK IN ‘49! ONE OF THESE COINS 1S BQ/ND TO BE THAT NUMBER-ONE DIME! NO... THAT'S A QUARTER ... THAT'S A DOLLAR... A NICKEL... A CABLE 2. A SPAT BUTTON T.. IVE HAD THIS COIN IN My HANDS ENOUGH TIMES TO RECOGNIZE THAT MINT MARK... THAT DATE ... IT NICK... WAIT, LITTLE GIRL! TLL BUY L THAT COIN! HM... AHD BETTER CHANGE MAH THAT'S A DIMEN! LEMMEE SEE THAT, YOU NO-NECK BRAT! THANK YE, MATILOA! WHAT. YE GOT HERE... AN AMERICAN TEN-CENT PIECE, EY? SCROGEE! HOW OID YA/ GET ny CALM YOURSELF, MADAM! MAH NAME'S] HERE? NEVER MIND! ILL FIGHT FERGUS NCDUCK! TH ONLY SCROOGE: YOU THROUGH ALL THE AGES! AH KNOW IS ME SON, BUT THE WEE LAO’S| x ONLY 10 YEARS OLD THIS VURRY DAY! =7 BOILING BAT WINGS! SCROOGE'S FATHER! "AN AMERICAN COIN LIKE THIS .. . IT MIGHT BE JUST THE INSPIRATION SCROOGEY NEEDS TAKE SOMETHIN’ ‘O' HIMSELF! AYE... JUST THE THING! ‘SORRY, MADAM! TIS A GOO PRICE, BUT MAH LAOS FUTURE THAT'S SCROOGE'S FATHER, i HOWDY, TOOTS! AH ONE ALL RIGHT! GUESS TO HAVE BEEN ATHEM RICH AMURICANS DISAPPOINTED HE'D GIVEN Y HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT! J 1 > UP THIS COIN SO EASILY? HOWZABOUT WE... e i ax STG SAG O 5 ow th U een, Fa cai aay ee 3. 7 Perth et 8 bod THAT LASSIE SHOULD HAVE IOWN BETTER THAN TO FOOL ITH A MEMBER OF THE CLAN’ TACDUCK, HERE COMES SCROOGE...I MEAN, \_ HIS FATHER? THIS IS LIKE ALL THE TIMES IN THE PAST THAT SCROOGE HIMSELF HAS CHASED ME IN THE IT'S THET WOMAN AGIN! SHE'S TOO MUCH! THE GALS BACK Home \ | COULD RASSLE. S7ES@S TO THE GROUND, BUT THEY WERE DEMURE RBOUT IT! P05 a Rees = : za leh BACK OFF, BUSTER! YOU WOULON'T G7 TO LAY YOUR HANDS, ONA MADAM, PENCE MAKE SHILLINGS AND SHILLINGS MAKE POUNDS! Y" OBVIOUSLY KNOW ANY McOUCKS OR ¥ FLAMING FUNGUS! IT'S ONLY. TEN LOUSY CENTS! WHATS THE BIG OEAL? NO, WE MUST GET SOMEONE T PAY THIS. COIN T’ SCROOGEY FOR CLEANING HIS BOOTS! THEY MUST BE POWERFUL BOOTS, TOO, SO THE LAD WILL REALLY EARVHIS PAY! AH, [HAVE IT! ME THIS 1S SCARY! HERE I HAVE THE OLO PAL, BURT, THE CHANCE TO GET THAT DIME EVEN CITCHOISGER! fs ‘SCROOGE, BUT ICANT SEEM TO CHANGE HISTORY! I CAN ONLY HELEN HAPPEN! THAT'S WHY I WISH TO REWARD YOU... AND SCROOGEY! | REWARD ) SEE HERE... A SHILLING IS WORTH ME, MUM?Y/MORE THAN A DIME, AND TLL TRADE’ How? YOU TWO SHILLINGS FOR THAT. COIN... ONE FOR SCROOGE AND. HERE Ye BE, MUM! TLL BE THE... THE DIME 1S ANE?. OFF TO FIND SCROOGEY THEARO HIM SAy IT! THOSE WERE NOW, BUT THE DIME IS OS! “THE Is yours? ME! OOGE McDUCK'S LEGENDARY numBeR- IME IS MINE? LEGALLY? NOBODY TAKE IT AWAYIZZ'S MUNE!!? =#F_NO!NO! MY DIME! 5/ THAT GRATE! THIS INT BE HAPPENING: THAT WAS CLOSE, BUT HERE'S: YOUR COIN, MA’AM! YOU SHOULD BE MORE CAREFUL WITH YOUR MONEY! EVEN ONE COIN |S AVALUABLEY THING IN THIS LIFE! THOPE TO HEE! OF COURSE, YOU 00! HEE HEE HEE! YOU JUST RETURNED THIS O/METO ME! SCROOGE McOUCK GAVE JIE HIS NUMBER ONE DIME! HIMSELF! TO ME! HEE HEE HEE! WHY, YESm! OO 1ANOW THIS |S PRICELESS! NOTHING CAN GO WRONG FOR ME NOW! IN JUST A HALF-HOUR, TLL BE WHISKED BACK; TO THE FUTURE, OIME AND ALL! WHAT BETTER WAY TO SPEND TIME > THAN TO SIT HERE AND WATCH SCROOGE) WORK HIS TAIL FEATHERS OFF! THERE! 2GASP! TMFINISHED! pops WONDER WHAT THE OOPE'S WAITING FOR?, MY TIME IS ALMOST UP!TLL JusT BE, Yoo] yo ABLE TO SEE THE OITCHOIGGER ay Sam NCE f\(SCROOGE, AND THENTLL BE GONE! _gR wo M/ 5 Ls & i als Fay SAY, LOOK AT THAT! PEACHY IS HAVING ‘el LY “ASALE AND Mewinaxaczey TWO J EA, “SHILLINGS TO ME NAME! WHAT LUCK! £4 SS aes PEACHYS| areeial Gy | e523 i F ee A = 4 AHL PAY SCROOGE LATER! GOOD THING AH TRADED OFF THAT AMERICAN COIN... Y PEACHY WOULDN'T TAKE THAT! Omens eee HA! THE DITCHOIGGER S77-FED. WHAT HAVE I DOME?! T | SCR ! MEANS THE INTERCEPTED SCROOGE'S FIRST LITTLE JERK WILL Hat DIME BEFORE HE OWNED IT! BUT LATER TO EARN HIS FURST COIN! ER MY MAGIC « WUE A) “Ze ...IT £5 THE FIRST COIN HE EVER OWNED! WHICH MEANS THAT IF THI DIME WILL EVER BE OF ANY USETO ME... Itchy MY FAY?! THE FIRST COIN EARNED FROMMY OWN LABOR! THIS SHOULD BE A LESSON! LIFE IS FILLED WITH TOUGH JOBS, AND THERE'LL ALWAYS BE SHAR PIES TO CHEAT ME! WATT? THIS IS AN AMERICAN COIN! aC AGL (ME! THAT SHARPIE TRICKED ME! ANO AFTER THAT 7A/GH JOB, TOO! J WELL, TLL BE TOUGHER THAN THE TOUGHIES, AND. SHARPER THAN THE SHARPIES DOLLARS AND: SIKTEEN CENTS!" I JUST WISH THAT 1COULD. THANK THE PEt

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