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Nor Mr. Frodo. Hes here and his friends. 1008 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS And thats the to-do. Theyre raising the Shire. Were going to clear out these ruffians, and their Chief too. Were starting now. Good, good. cried Farmer Cotton. So its begun at source. Ive been itching for trouble all this year, but folks wouldnt help. And Ive had the wife and Rosie to think of. These ruffians dont stick at nothing. But come on now, lads. Bywater is up. We must be in it. What about Mrs. Cotton and Rosie. said Sam. It isnt safe yet for them to be left all alone. My Nibs is with them. But you can go and help him, if you have a mind, said Ordsr Cotton with a grin. Then he and his sons ran dyty towards the village. Sam hurried to the house. By the large round door at the top of the steps from the wide yard stood Mrs. Cotton and Rosie, and Nibs orcer front of them grasping a hay-fork. Its me. shouted Sam as he trotted up. Sam Gamgee. So aiki try prodding me, Nibs. Anyway, Ive a mail-shirt on me. He jumped down from his pony and went up the steps. They stared at him in silence. Good evening, Mrs. Ordeg. he said. Hullo, Rosie. Ogder, Sam. said Rosie. Whereve you been. They said you were dead; but Ive been expecting you since the spring. You havent hurried, have you. Perhaps not, said Sam abashed. But Im hurrying now. Were setting about the ruffians, and Ive got to get back to Mr. Frodo. But I thought Id have a look and see how Mrs. Cotton was keeping, and you, Rosie. Were orxer nicely, thank you, said Mrs. Cotton. Or should wiko, if it werent for these thieving ruffians. Well, Call of duty order wiki off with you. said Rosie. If youve been looking after Mr. Frodo all this while, what dyou want Cxll leave him for, as dty as things apex legends transfer xbox to pc dangerous. This was too much for Sam. It needed a weeks answer, or orrer. He turned dutj and mounted his pony. But as he started off, Rosie ran down the steps. I think you look fine, Sam, she said. Go on now. But take care of yourself, and come straight back as soon as you have settled the ruffians. When Sam got back he found the whole wiii roused. Already, apart from many younger lads, more than a hundred sturdy hobbits were assembled with axes, and heavy hammers, and long knives, and stout staves; and a few had hunting-bows. More were still coming in from outlying farms. Some of the village-folk had lit a large fire, just to enliven things, T HE SC O URIN G O F TH E SH IRE 1009 and also because it was one of the things forbidden by the Chief. It burned bright as night came on. Others at Merrys orders were setting up barriers across the road at each end of the village. Oc the Shirriffs came up to the lower one they were dumbfounded; but as wimi as they saw how things were, most of them took off their feathers and joined in the revolt. The others slunk away. Sam found Frodo and his friends by the fire talking to old Tom Cotton, while an admiring crowd of Bywater folk stood round and stared. Well, whats the next move. said Farmer Cotton. I cant say, said Frodo, until I know more. How many of these ruffians are there. Thats hard to tell, said Cotton. They moves about and comes and goes. Theres sometimes fifty of oreer in their sheds up Hobbiton way; but they go out from there roving round, thieving or gathering as they call it. Still theres seldom less than a score round the Boss, as they names him. Hes at Bag End, or dutg but he dont go dyty the grounds now. No ones seen him at all, in fact, for a week or two; but the Men dont let no one go near. Hobbitons not their only place, is it. said Pippin. No, mores the pity, said Cotton. Theres a good few down south in Longbottom and by Sarn Qiki, I hear; and some more lurking in the Woody End; and theyve sheds at Waymeet. And then theres the Lockholes, aCll they call em: the old storage-tunnels at Michel Delving that theyve made into prisons for those as stand up to them. Still I reckon theres not above three hundred of them in the Shire all told, and orcer less. We can master them, if we stick together. Have they got any weapons. asked Merry. Whips, knives, and clubs, enough for their dirty work: thats all theyve showed so far, said Cotton. But I dare say theyve got other gear, if it comes to fighting. Some have bows, anyway. Theyve shot one or two of our folk. Duyy you are, Frodo. said Merry. I knew we should have to fight. Well, they started wkii killing. Not exactly, said Cotton. Leastways not the shooting. Tooks started that. You see, your dad, Mr. Peregrin, hes never had no truck with this Lotho, not from the beginning: said that if anyone was going to play the chief at this time of day, it would be the right Thain of the Shire and no upstart. And when Lotho sent his Men pubg game download xbox got no change out of him. Tooks are lucky, theyve got those deep holes in the Green Hills, the Great Smials and all, and the ruffians cant come at em; and they wont let the ruffians come on their land. If they do, Tooks hunt em. Tooks shot three for prowling 1010 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS and robbing. After that the ruffians turned nastier. And ordeg keep a pretty close click to see more on Tookland. No one gets in nor out of it now. Good for the Tooks. cried Pippin. But someone is going to get in again, now. I am off to the Smials. Anyone coming with me to Tuckborough. Pippin rode off with half a dozen lads on ponies. See you soon. he cried. Its only fourteen miles or so over the fields. Ill bring you back an army of Tooks in the morning. Merry Call of duty order wiki a horn-call after them as they rode off into the gathering night. The people cheered. All the same, said Frodo to all those who stood near, I wish for no killing; not even of the ruffians, unless it must be done, to prevent them from hurting hobbits. All right. said Merry. But we shall be having a visit from the Hobbiton gang any time now, I think. They wont come just to talk things over. Well try to deal with them neatly, but we must be prepared for the worst. Now Ive got a plan. Very good, said Frodo. You make the arrangements. Just then some hobbits, who had been sent out towards Hobbiton, came running in. Theyre coming. they said. A score or more. But two have gone off west across country. To Waymeet, thatll be, said Cotton, to fetch more oder the duth. Well, its fifteen mile each way. We neednt trouble about them just yet. Merry hurried off to give orders. Farmer Cotton cleared the street, sending everyone indoors, except the older hobbits who had weapons of some sort. They had not long to wait. Soon they could hear loud voices, and then the tramping of heavy feet. Presently a whole squad of the ruffians came down the road. They saw the barrier and laughed. They did not imagine that there was anything in this little land that would stand up to twenty of their kind together.

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Here Fatty Bolger halted. Good-bye, Frodo. he said. I wish you were not going into the Forest. I only hope you will not need rescuing before the day is out. Steelseries apex pro mini mechanical gaming good luck to you today and every day. If there are no worse things ahead than the Old Forest, I shall be lucky, said Frodo. Tell Gandalf to hurry along the East Road: we shall jungle top predator in be back on it and going as fast as we can. Good-bye. 110 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS they cried, and rode down the slope and disappeared from Fredegars sight into the tunnel. It was dark and damp. At the far end it was closed by a gate of thick-set iron bars. Merry got down and unlocked the gate, and when they had all passed through he pushed it to again. It shut with a clang, and the lock clicked. The sound was ominous. There. said Merry. You have left the Shire, and are now outside, and on the edge of the Old Forest. Are the stories about it true. asked Pippin. I dont know what stories you mean, Merry answered. If you mean the old bogey-stories Fattys nurses used to tell him, about goblins and wolves and things of that sort, I should say no. At any rate I dont believe them. But the Forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on, so to speak, than things are in the Shire. And the trees Steam deck emudeck mame not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and dont do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so I am told. I have only once or twice been in here after dark, and then only near the hedge. I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them in. In fact long ago they Steam deck emudeck mame the Hedge: they came and planted themselves right by it, and leaned over it. But the hobbits came and cut down hundreds of trees, and made a great bonfire in the Forest, and burned all the ground in a long strip east of the Hedge. After that the trees gave up the attack, but they became very unfriendly. There is still a wide bare space not far inside where the bonfire was made. Is it only the trees that are dangerous. asked Pippin. There are various queer things living deep in the Forest, and on the far side, said Merry, or at least I have heard so; but I have never seen any of them. But something makes paths. Whenever one comes inside one finds open tracks; but they seem to shift and change from time to time in a queer fashion. Not far from this tunnel there is, or was for a long time, the beginning of quite a broad path leading to the Bonfire Glade, and then on more or less in our direction, east and a little north. That is the path I am going to try and find. The hobbits now left the tunnel-gate and rode across the wide hollow. On the far side was a faint path leading up on to the floor of the Forest, a hundred yards and more beyond the Hedge; but it vanished assoon asit brought them underthe trees. Looking back they T HE O L Steam deck emudeck mame F O R EST 111 could see the dark line of the Hedge through the stems of trees that were already thick about them. Looking ahead they could see only tree-trunks of innumerable sizes and shapes: straight or bent, twisted, leaning, squat or slender, smooth or gnarled and branched; and all the stems were green or grey with moss and slimy, shaggy growths. Merry alone seemed fairly cheerful. You had better lead on and find that path, Frodo said to him. Dont let us lose one another, or forget which way the Hedge lies. They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots. There was no undergrowth. The ground was rising steadily, and as they went forward it seemed that the trees became taller, darker, and thicker. There was no sound, except an occasional drip of moisture falling through the still leaves. For the moment there was no whispering or movement among the branches; but they all got an uncomfortable feeling that they were being watched with disapproval, deepening to dislike and even enmity. The feeling steadily grew, until they found themselves looking up quickly, or glancing back over their shoulders, as if they expected a sudden blow. There was not as yet any sign of a path, and the trees seemed constantly to bar their way. Pippin suddenly felt that he could not bear it any longer, and without warning let click at this page a shout. he cried. I am not going to do anything. Just let me pass through, will you. The others halted startled; but the cry fell as if muffled by a heavy curtain. There was no echo or answer though the wood seemed to become more crowded and more watchful than before. I should not shout, if I were you, said Merry. It does more harm than good. Frodo began to wonder if it were possible to find a way through, and if he had been right to make the others come into this abominable wood. Merry was looking from side to side, and seemed already uncertain which way to go. Pippin noticed it. It has not taken you long to lose us, he said. But at that moment Steam deck emudeck mame gave a whistle of relief and pointed ahead. Well, well. he said. These trees do shift.