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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
13th Jan, 2021 11:52:18 PM
"The Wishing Stones Of Tuku Tiva"?
foxley
Since: Jan, 2001
14th Jan, 2021 05:08:44 AM
Yes. That's it. I read it under the title of "Wishing Stone Island". "The Wishing Stones Of Tuku Tiva" is apparently it's reprint title.
Thank you. That's save me a lot of fruitless searching.
I am trying to locate a particular Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge story. I think it is by Carl Barks but I wouldn't swear to it.
In the story, Donald keeps aggravating Scrooge by continually referring to money by various slang terms: 'coconuts', 'bananas', 'clams', etc. Donald and the nephews accompany Scrooge on an expedition to the South Seas in search of some sort of magical stone (my memory is bit vague on the details here). They travel to an island were the natives are depressed because no traders have come to buy their coconuts, so they have a huge glut of coconuts and no money. Donald does not pay attention to the islanders' plight as he is obsessed with finding the stone. When he does locate the stone, he wishes for 'a million coconuts' (meaning dollars). The islanders hear this and immediately pelt him with their stock of excess coconuts, then tell him he has till sundown to pay them for the coconuts. When Donald asks what will happen if he doesn't pay, they say they will gather up the coconuts and throw them at him again. The nephews save the day by finding the stone and wishing for a trader to show up and buy all of Donald's coconuts.