#384190 - You'd have the shirt off my back, one guy accused as we re-possessed his farm, hell I let him borrow his own cart to get to the train depot, and the shirt was full of holes anyway, but things were so bad we were literally taking paintings, furniture the lot off guys who were respected citizens last year, Silas could never have done it, but hey, it was them or me. All she kept on was funds was coming from Germany, and she didn't get very far. Friday 25th October 1929 I knew things were bad at Wall Street yesterday, stocks crashing everywhere, guys losing fortunes on paper, but only on paper, not real money, I knew it was a readjustment, it would bounce back, give it a month, I had the hatches battened down for months, waiting for this to happen, most of my cash was in gold, or gold mining shares, rock solid investments.