ng angry, and also tired of the game. It had made him very hungry indee

THE HOBBIT 'What has roots as nobody sees, ls taller than trees, Up, up it goes, And yet never grow

Now certainly Bilbo was in what is called a tight place. But you must remember it was not quite so tight for him as it would have been for me or for you

or matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely. Just as well for him, as he agree~ _when he cume to his senses. Goodness knows what the striking of matches and the smell of tobacco would have brought on him out of dark holes in that horrible place. Still at the moment he felt vel'y cl'ushed. But in slapping all his pockets and f~eling a~l round himself for matches his hand came on the hilt of his little sword-the little dagger that he got from the tr~lls, a~d that he had quite forgotten; nor fortunately had the gobhns noticed it, as he wore it inside his breeches

It was not brok n and that was something. Then he felt for his pou h, m I 1h r wu

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