H 02 Roast Mutton
02.001 {p} Up jumped Bilbo,
… him.
02.002 {p} “Don’t be a
… Gandalf.
02.003 {p} “My dear fellow,”
… wait.”
02.004 {p} “What message?” said
… fluster.
02.005 {p} “Great Elephants!” said
… mantelpiece!”
02.006 {p} “What’s that got
… fourteen!”
02.007 {p} “If you had
… note-paper).
02.008 {p} This is what
… read:
02.009 {lt.p} “Thorin and Company
… for.
02.010 {lt.p} “Thinking it unnecessary
… punctual,
02.011 {lt.cl.p} “We have the
… remain
02.012 {lt.cl.p} “Yours deeply
02.013 {lt.cl.p} “Thorin & Co.”
02.014 {p} “That leaves you
… Gandalf.
02.015 {p} “But—,” said Bilbo.
02.016 {p} “No time for
… wizard.
02.017 {p} “But—,” said Bilbo again.
02.018 {p} “No time for
… go!”
02.020 {p} Very puffed he
… pocket-handkerchief!
02.021 {p} “Bravo!” said Balin
… him.
02.022 {p} Just then all
… Bilbo.
02.023 {p} “Up you two
… Thorin.
02.024 {p} “I’m awfully sorry,”
… precise.”
02.025 {p} “Don’t be precise,”
… luggage.”
02.026 {p} That’s how they
… beard.
02.027 {p} They had not
… all.
02.028 {p} At first they
… dry.
02.029 {p} “To think it
… that!
02.030 {p} Still the dwarves
… north.
02.031 {p} It was nearly
… on?”
02.032 {p} Not until then
… all!
02.033 {ps} “Just when a
… often).
02.034 {p} They decided in
… it.
02.035 {p} Then one of
… breakfast.
02.036 {p} There they all
… twinkling.
02.037 {p} When they had
… night.
02.038 {p} Others said: “These
… fight.
02.039 {p} That settled it.
… dark.
02.040 {p} Suddenly the red
… ahead.
02.042 {p} Off Bilbo had
… saw.
02.043 {p} Three very large
… all.
02.044 {p} “Mutton yesterday, mutton
… trolls.
02.045 {p} “Never a blinking
… jug.
02.046 {p} William choked. “Shut
… sleeve.
02.047 {p} Yes, I am
… cheerily.
02.048 {p} Bilbo knew it.
… William.
02.049 {p} Bert and Tom
… beginning!”
02.050 {p} It was! Trolls’
… tree.
02.051 {p} “Blimey, Bert, look
… William.
02.052 {p} “What is it?”
… up.
02.053 {p} “Lumme, if I
… yer?”
02.054 {p} “Bilbo Baggins, a
… him.
02.055 {p} “A burrahobbit?” said
… them.
02.056 {p} “What’s a burrahobbit
… William.
02.057 {p} “And can yer
… Tom.
02.058 {p} “Yer can try,”
… skewer.
02.059 {p} “He wouldn’t make
… boned.”
02.060 {p} “P’raps there are
… him.
02.061 {p} “Yes, lots,” said
… afterwards.
02.062 {p} “What d’yer mean?”
… time.
02.063 {p} “What I say,”
… supper.”
02.064 {p} “Poor little blighter,”
… go!”
02.065 {p} “Not till he
… talks!”
02.066 {p} “I won’t have
… anyway.”
02.067 {p} “You’re a fat
… evening.”
02.068 {p} “And you’re a lout!”
02.069 {p} “And I won’t
… eye.
02.070 {p} Then there was
… ever.
02.071 {p} That would have
… firelight.
02.072 {p} Right in the
… down.
02.073 {p} “There’s more to
… it!”
02.074 {p} “I reckon you’re
… light.”
02.075 {p} And so they
… fire.
02.076 {p} “That’ll teach ’em,”
… cornered.
02.077 {p} Thorin came last—and
… about?”
02.078 {p} “It’s trolls!” said
… he.
02.079 {p} “O! are they?”
… face.
02.082 {p} “No good roasting
… William’s.
02.083 {p} “Don’t start the
… night.”
02.084 {p} “Who’s a-arguing?” said
… spoken.
02.085 {p} “You are,” said Bert.
02.086 {p} “You’re a liar,”
… knives.
02.087 {p} “No good boiling
… Tom’s.
02.088 {p} “Shut up!” said
… more.”
02.089 {p} “Shut up yerself!”
… know.”
02.090 {p} “You’re a booby,”
… William.
02.091 {p} “Booby yerself!” said Tom.
02.093 {p} “Who shall we
… voice.
02.094 {p} “Better sit on
… talking.
02.095 {p} “Don’t talk to
… he?”
02.096 {p} “The one with
… Bert.
02.097 {p} “Nonsense, the one
… William’s.
02.098 {p} “I made sure
… Bert.
02.099 {p} “Yellow it was,”
… William.
02.100 {p} “Then what did
… Bert.
02.101 {p} “I never did.
… it.”
02.102 {p} “That I never
… you.”
02.103 {p} “Two to one,
… Bert.
02.104 {p} “Who are you
… William.
02.105 {p} “Now stop it!”
… it!”
02.106 {p} “Dawn take you
… William.
02.107 {p} “Excellent!” said Gandalf,
… them.
02.108 {p} The next thing
… satisfied.
02.109 {p} “Silly time to
… food!”
02.110 {p} “And that’s just
… it!”
02.111 {p} They searched about,
… incantations.
02.112 {p} “Would this be
… stone.
02.113 {p} “Why on earth
… hilts.
02.114 {p} Gandalf and Thorin
… hobbit.
02.115 {p} “These look like
… them.”
02.116 {p} “Let’s get out
… fire.
02.117 {p} After that they
… East.
02.118 {p} “Where did you
… along.
02.119 {p} “To look ahead,”
… he.
02.120 {p} “And what brought
… time?”
02.121 {p} “Looking behind,” said he.
02.122 {p} “Exactly!” said Thorin;
… plain?”
02.123 {p} “I went on
… Rivendell.”
02.124 {p} “Where’s that?” asked Bilbo.
02.125 {p} “Don’t interrupt!” said
… strangers.
02.126 {p} “I immediately had
… anywhere!”
02.127 {p} “Thank you!” said Thorin.