Plot
The story begins as Smiff Smith is told to rob a bucket for his mother. While doing so a mysterious man named Dreep approaches his mother with the prospect of bringing little Smiff under his wing and teaching him how to commit crimes the professional way; without the wait of practise or a complicated fee; with Smiff's mother receiving half the profits. Smiff then meets another child and they become collaborators, teaming up in their first professional robbery, a robbery of the town mayor. Mayhem, among other things, ensues.
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