The Hobbit - Chapter 2: Roast Mutton
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with sacks in their hands, that they used for carrying off mutton and other plunder. They waited in the shadows as each dwarf came up and looked at the fire and the spilled jugs and the nod mutton in surprise. Pop when a nasty smelly sack over his head. And he was down soon dwell in lay by Balin and fili and kili together. And Dori and nori and Ori all in a heap and oin and gloin and be for and both for and bomber piled uncomfortably near the fire. That'll teach him, said tom for by for and bomber had given a lot of trouble and fought like mad as dwarves will when cornered Thorin came last and he was not caught unawares. He came expecting mischief and didn't need to see his friends legs sticking out of sacks to tell him that things were not all Well, he stood outside in the shadows some way off and said, what's all this trouble? Who's been knocking my people about? It's trolls, said bilbo from behind a tree. They had forgotten all about him. They're hiding in the bushes with sacks, said he, Oh are they? Said Thorin, and he jumped forward to the fire before they could leap on him. He caught up a big branch all on fire at one end and bert got that end in his eye before he could step aside. That put him out of the battle for a bit bilbo did his best. He caught hold of tom's leg as well as he could. It was thick as a young tree trunk, but he was sent spinning up into the top of some bushes when Tom kicked the sparks up in thorne's face. Tom got the branch in his teeth for that, and lost one of the front ones. It made him howl, I can tell you, but just at that moment William came up behind and popped a sack right over thorne's head and down to his toes. And so the fight ended a nice pickle. They were all in now, all neatly tied up in sacks with three angry trolls, and two with burns and bashes. To remember sitting by them arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly and bilbo up in a bush with his clothes and his skin torn, not daring to move for fear they should hear him. It was just then that Gandalf came back, but no one saw him. The trolls had just decided to roast the doors now and eat them Later. That was Bert's idea. And after a lot of argument they had all agreed to it, no good roasting him Now. It'd take all night! Said a voice. Bert thought it was Williams. Don't start the argument all over again, Bill, he said, Or it will take all night. Who's arguing? Said William! Who thought it was Bert that had spoken, You are! Said. Bert, you're a lawyer, said William. And so the argument began all over again. In the end they decided to mince them fine and boil them. So they got a great black pot and they took out their knives, no good boiling them. We ain't got no water. And it's a long way to the well and all! Said a voice. Burton. Williams thought it was Tom's. Shut up! Said, they will never have done. And you can fetch the water yourself if you say anymore. Shut up! Yourself! Said Tom. Who thought it was William's voice. Who's arguing? But you, I'd like to know you're a booby! Said William. Bowie. Yourself, said Tom. And so the argument began all over again and went on hotter than ever. Until at last they decided to sit on the sax one by one and squash them and boil them next time. Who shall we sit on 1st! said the voice. Better sit on the last fellow! First, said Bert. Who's I had been damaged by thorn! He thought Tom was talking. Don't talk to yourself, said tom. But if he wants to sit on the last one, sit on him. Which is he? The one with the yellow stockings, said Bert nonsense. The one with the gray stockings! Said a voice like Williams. I made sure it was yellow said Bert Yellow. It was said William. Then what did you say? It was grateful? Said Bert. I never did Tom said it, that I never did said tom It was you 2- one. So shut your mouth! said Bert. Who are you talking to? Said William. Now stop! It! Said Tom and Burke together. The Knights getting on and dawn comes early. Let's get on with it. Don't take you all and be stoned to you! Said a voice that sounded like Williams, but it wasn't. For just at that moment the light came over the hill and there was a mighty twitter in the branches. William never spoke where he stood, turned to stone as he stooped and bert and Tom were stuck like rocks as they looked at him. And there they stand to this day, all alone. Unless the birds perch on them for trolls as you probably know, must be underground before dawn, or they go back to the stuff of the mountains they are made of and never move again. That is what happened to Bert and Tom and William. Excellent! Said Gandalf as he stepped from behind a tree and helped bilbo to climb down out of a thorn bush. Then bilbo understood. It was the Wizard's voice that had kept the trolls bickering and quarreling until the light came and made an end of them