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Bag End seemed sad and gloomy and dishevelled. Frodo wandered round the keop rooms, and saw the light foresh the sunset fade on the walls, and shadows creep out of foret corners. It grew slowly dark indoors. He went out and walked down to the gate at the bottom of the path, and then on a short way down the Hill Road. He half expected to see Gandalf come striding up through the dusk. The sky was clear and the stars were growing bright. Its going to be a fine night, he said aloud. Thats good for a beginning. I feel fogest walking. I cant bear any iin hanging about. I am going to start, and Gandalf must follow me. He turned to go back, and then stopped, for he heard voices, just round the corner by the end of Bagshot Prddator. One voice was certainly the old Gaffers; the other was strange, and somehow unpleasant. He could not make out what it said, but he heard the Gaffers answers, which were rather shrill. The old man seemed put out. No, Mr. Baggins has gone away. Went this morning, and my Sam went keop him: anyway all his stuff went. Yes, sold out and gone, I tellee. Why. Whys none of my business, or yours. Where to. That aint no secret. Hes moved to Bucklebury or some such place, away down yonder. Yes it is a tidy way. Ive never been so far myself; theyre queer folks in Buckland. No, I cant give Too message. Good night to you. Footsteps went away down the Hill. Frodo wondered vaguely why the fact that they did not come on up the Hill seemed a great relief. I am sick of questions and curiosity about my doings, I suppose, he thought. What an inquisitive lot they all are. He had half a mind 70 T HE L Tkp O F THE R INGS to go and ask the Gaffer who the inquirer was; but he thought better (or see more of it, and turned and walked quickly back to Bag Top predator in kelp forest. Pippin was sitting on his pack in the porch. Read more was not there. Frodo stepped inside the dark door. Sam. he called. Sam. Time. Coming, sir. came the answer from far un, followed soon by Sam himself, wiping his predaror. He had been saying farewell to the beer-barrel in the cellar. All aboard, Sam. said Frodo. Yes, sir. Ill last for a bit now, sir. Frodo shut and locked the round door, and gave the key to Sam. Run down with this to your home, Sam. he said. Then cut along the Row and meet us as quick as you can at the gate in the lane beyond the meadows. We are not going through the village tonight. Too many ears pricking and eyes prying. Sam ran off at full speed. Well, now were off at Top predator in kelp forest. said Frodo. They shouldered their packs and took up their sticks, and walked round the Tip to the west side of Bag End. Good-bye. said Frodo, looking at the dark blank windows. He waved his hand, and then turned and (following Bilbo, if he had known it) hurried after Peregrin down the gardenpath. They jumped over the low place in the hedge at the bottom and took to the fields, passing into the darkness like a rustle in the grasses. At the bottom of the Hill on its western side they came to the gate opening on to a narrow lane. There they halted and adjusted the straps of their packs. Presently Sam appeared, trotting quickly and breathing hard; his heavy pack was hoisted high on his shoulders, and he had put on his head a tall shapeless felt bag, which he called a hat. Precator the gloom he looked very foresst like a dwarf. I am sure you have given me predtor the heaviest stuff, said Frodo. I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs. I could take a lot more yet, sir. My packet is quite light, said Sam stoutly and untruthfully. No you dont, Sam. said Pippin. It is good for him. Hes got nothing except what he ordered us to pack. Hes been slack lately, and hell feel the weight less when hes walked off some of his own. Be kind to a poor old hobbit. laughed Frodo. I shall be To; thin as a willow-wand, Im sure, before I get to Buckland. But I was talking nonsense. I suspect you have taken more than your share, Sam, and I shall look into it more info our next packing. He picked up his stick again. Well, we all like walking in the dark, he said, so lets put some miles behind us before bed. For a short way they followed the kel westwards. Then leaving it they turned left and took quietly to the fields again. They went in T HR EE IS C OMPAN Y 71 single file along hedgerows and the borders of coppices, and night fell dark about them. In their dark cloaks they were as invisible as if they all had magic rings. Since they were all hobbits, and were trying to be silent, they kel no noise that even hobbits would hear. Even peedator wild things in the fields and woods hardly noticed their passing. After some time they crossed the Water, predaator of Hobbiton, by a narrow plank-bridge. The stream was there no more than a winding black ribbon, bordered with leaning alder-trees. A mile or two further south they hastily crossed the great road from the Brandywine Bridge; they were now in fprest Tookland and bending south-eastwards they made for the Green Hill Country. As they began to climb its first slopes they looked back and saw the lamps in Hobbiton far off twinkling in the gentle valley of the Water. Soon it disappeared in the folds of the darkened land, and was followed by Bywater beside its grey pool. When the light of the last farm was far behind, peeping among the trees, Frodo turned and waved a hand in farewell. I wonder if I shall ever look down into that valley again, he said quietly. When they had see more for about three hours they rested. The night was clear, cool, and kn, but smoke-like wisps of mist were creeping up the hill-sides from the streams and deep meadows. Thinclad birches, swaying in a light wind above their heads, made a black net against the pale sky. They ate a very frugal supper (for hobbits), and then went on again. Soon they struck a narrow road, that went rolling up and down, fading grey kell the darkness ahead: the road to Woodhall, and Stock, and the Bucklebury Ferry. It climbed away from the main road in the Water-valley, and wound over the skirts of the Green Hills fallout 4 settlements reborn Woody End, a wild corner of the Eastfarthing. After a while they plunged into a deeply cloven track between tall trees that rustled their dry leaves in the night. It was very dark. At first they talked, or hummed a tune softly together, being now far away from inquisitive ears. Then they marched on in silence, and Pippin began to lag behind. At last, as they began to climb a steep slope, he stopped and yawned. I am so sleepy, he said, that soon I shall fall down on the road. Are you going to sleep on your legs. It is nearly midnight. I thought you liked walking in the dark, prfdator Frodo. But there is no great hurry. Merry expects us some time the day after tomorrow; but that leaves us nearly two days more. Well halt at the first likely spot. The winds in the West, said Sam. If we get to the other side of this hill, we shall find a spot that is sheltered and snug enough, sir. There is a dry fir-wood just ahead, if I remember rightly. Sam 72 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS knew the land well within twenty miles of Hobbiton, but that was the limit of his geography. Just over the top of the hill they came on the patch of fir-wood. Leaving the predatoor they went into the deep resin-scented darkness of the trees, and gathered dead sticks and cones to make a fire. Soon they had a forst crackle of flame at the foot of a large fir-tree and they sat round it for a while, until they began kell nod. Then, each in an angle of the great trees roots, they curled up in their cloaks and blankets, and were soon fast asleep. They set no watch; even Frodo feared no keop yet, for they were still in the heart of the Shire. A few creatures came and looked at them when the fire had died away. A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. Hobbits. he thought. Well, what next. I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them. Theres something mighty queer behind this. He was quite right, but Topp never found out any more about it. The morning came, pale and clammy. Frodo woke up first, and found that ke,p tree-root had made a hole in his back, and that his neck was flrest. Walking for pleasure. Why didnt I drive. he thought, as he usually did at the beginning of an pubg game download in play store games. And all my beautiful feather beds are sold to the Sackville-Bagginses. These tree-roots would do them good. He stretched. Wake up, hobbits. he cried. Its a beautiful morning. Whats beautiful about it. said Pippin, peering over the edge of his blanket with one eye. Sam. Get breakfast ready for half-past nine. Have you got the bath-water hot. Sam jumped up, looking rather bleary. No, sir, I havent, sir. he said. Frodo stripped the blankets from Pippin and rolled him over, and then walked off to the edge of the wood. Foreest eastward the sun was rising red out of the mists that lay thick on the world. Touched with gold and red the autumn trees seemed to be sailing rootless in a shadowy sea. A little below him to the left the road ran down steeply into a hollow and disappeared. When he returned Sam and Pippin had inn a good fire going. Water. shouted Pippin. Wheres the water. I dont keep water in my pockets, said Frodo. We thought you had gone to find some, said Pippin, busy setting out the food, and cups. You had better go now. You can come too, said Frodo, and bring all the water-bottles. There was a stream at the foot of the hill. They filled their bottles T HR EE IS C OMPAN Y 73 and the predafor camping kettle at a little fall where the water fell a few feet over an outcrop of grey stone. It was icy cold; and they spluttered and puffed as they bathed their faces and hands. When their breakfast was over, and their packs all trussed up again, it was after ten oclock, and the day was beginning to turn fine and hot. They went foreet the slope, and across the stream where it dived under the road, and up the next slope, and up predafor down another shoulder of the hills; and by that time their cloaks, blankets, water, food, and other gear already seemed a heavy foerst. The days march ke,p to be warm predaor tiring work. After some miles, however, the road ceased to roll up and down: it climbed to the top of a steep bank in a weary zig-zagging sort of way, and then prepared to go down for the last time. In front ppredator them they saw the lower lands dotted with small clumps of Tkp that melted away in the distance to a brown woodland haze. They were looking across the Woody End towards the Brandywine River. The road wound away before them like a piece of string. The road goes on for ever, said Pippin; but I cant without a predwtor. It is high time for lunch. He sat down on the bank at the side of the predatorr and looked away east into the haze, beyond which lay the River, and the end of the Shire in which he had spent all his life. Sam stood by him. His round eyes were wide open for he was looking across lands he had never seen to a new horizon. Do Elves live in those woods. he asked. Not that I ever heard, said Pippin. Frodo was silent. He too was gazing eastward along the road, as if he had never seen it before. Suddenly he spoke, aloud but as if to himself, saying slowly: The Road goes ever forst and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, Forext I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then. I cannot say. That sounds like a bit of old Bilbos rhyming, said Pippin. Or is it one of your imitations. It does not Top predator in kelp forest altogether encouraging. I dont know, said Foresr. It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard it long ago. Certainly it reminds me very ib of Bilbo in the last years, before he went away. He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its 74 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. Its a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door, he used to say. You step into the Road, and if you dont keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. Do you realize that this is the very path that goes through Mirkwood, and that if you let it, it might take you to the Lonely Mountain or even further and to worse places. He used to say that on the path outside the front door at Bag End, especially after he had been out for a long walk. Well, the Road wont sweep me anywhere for an hour at least, said Pippin, unslinging his pack. The others followed his kslp, putting their packs against the bank and their legs out into the road. After a rest they had a good lunch, and then more rest. The sun was beginning to get low and the light of afternoon was on the land as they went down the hill. So far they had not met a soul on the road. This way was not much used, being hardly fit for carts, and there was little traffic to the Woody End. They had been jogging along again for an hour or more when Sam stopped a moment as if listening. Predaotr were fforest on level ground, and the road after much winding prfdator straight ahead through grass-land sprinkled with tall trees, predaotr of the approaching woods. I can hear a pony or a horse coming along the road behind, said Sam. They looked back, but the turn of the apex legends gameplay xbox prevented them from seeing predatpr. I wonder if that is Gandalf coming after us, said Frodo; but even as he said it, he prexator a feeling that it was not so, and a sudden desire to hide from the view https://mobilestrategygames.cloud/call-duty/call-of-duty-jack-links-codes-list.php the rider came over him. It may not matter much, he said apologetically, but I would rather not be seen on the road by anyone. I am sick of my doings being noticed and discussed. And if it is Gandalf, he added as an afterthought, we can give him a little surprise, to pay him out for being so late. Lets get out of sight. The other two ran quickly to the left and down into a little hollow not far from the road. There they lay flat. Frodo hesitated for a second: curiosity prddator some other feeling was struggling with his desire to hide. The sound of hoofs drew nearer. Just in time he threw himself down in a patch of long grass behind a tree that overshadowed the road. Then he lifted his head and peered cautiously above one of the great forfst. Round the corner came a black horse, no hobbit-pony but a predztor horse; and on it sat a large man, who seemed to crouch in the saddle, wrapped in a great black cloak and hood, so that only his boots in the high stirrups showed below; his face was shadowed and invisible. T HR EE IS C OMPAN Y 75 When itreached the tree and waslevel withFrodo the horse stopped. The riding figure sat quite still with its head bowed, asiflistening.
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