The small folk use different ways of barter and trade depending on their origins and location. In America, the ‘littles’ are few and far between. Most strangers are welcomed with open arms and often adopted into the families (See: The burrow). A drifter like Sam would insist on giving back to anyone that helps him, but they would very rarely require that of strangers they met. It’s a dangerous world, and they need to stick together.

‘Borrowers’ are far more common in Great Britain compared to their American counterparts. Though there are some out there that will welcome strangers in much like the American littles (especially when the stranger is in desperate need of help), the borrowers have a complex bartering system. Because of their greater proliferance, a bit more specialty has gone into their training, much like how Walt Watch was a tanner and Mallory an expert seamstress. If a rat is killed, it is skinned and the skin traded to a tanner in the area. The meat can be jerkied and bartered away to someone with greater access to tea (very important), and so on.

All in all, the abundance in Great Britain has allowed the small folk to prosper and grow, while their scarcity in America has caused them to band together in the few places they group in.

(Borrowers and littles are only names for the same people; they use what humans gave them as their name though their origin is surrounded in mystery)