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This reminds me of a shaggy dog story I read about 40 years ago, about some follow moving a house through the middle of town. The story takes the form of correspondence between the fellow moving the house with the Farmer’s Friend Tractor Company, as he writes to get them to send him the big gear with 48 teeth that meshes with the little gear with 18 teeth...

It goes on an on about his problems, about how the house is stuck right in the middle of main street, and if he doesn’t get it moved soon, he is going to be a “blowed up sucker”.

I think, in the end, he gets a letter back saying that he needs to contact the Steel Elephant Tractor Company for the part, but they are, regretfully, out of business...

Funny story!

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Apparently the story is from the Alexander Bott's Earthworm Tractors series which originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

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I love it!