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Lacking cash, you decide instead to try to barter with the blacksmith in return for his services. You offer him a choice of any item in your Backpack and, after some initial reluctance, he decides to accept. (Erase the third item you have recorded on your list of Backpack Items.)
‘Alright, stranger,’ he says, tossing the item on a bench at the rear of the smithy, ‘leave y’ horse outside and come back in an hour—I’ll ’ave it done by then.’
