Tooth Fairy

One summer Rant and his friend Bodie, with their Scout kerchiefs tied around their necks, went out to collect old paint cans. They told Bodie's mom that it was for a recycling merit badge. They would walk around with a wheelbarrow and knock on doors to ask if they could take away any rusted cans of old, dried paint. Rant would say it was for a Cub Scouting scrap-metal project. They take them and pile them up it Rant's parent's barn. The boys would then use screwdrivers to pry open the lids. Usually they only found old forgotten paint, but in one can they found yellowed newspapers wrapped around little glass bottles. They began finding cans stuffed with coin money. To hide their own fortune they started to give other kids some of the coins, which cost over thousands of dollars. Rant would tell the kids to say they got the money from the tooth fairy if adults questioned them.