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When the Men reached the fire there was Farmer Cotton standing all alone warming his hands. Who are you, and what dyou think youre doing. said the ruffian-leader. Farmer Cotton looked at him slowly. I was just AApex to ask you that, he said. This isnt your country, and youre not wanted. Well, youre wanted anyhow, said the leader. We want you. Take T HE SC O URIN G O F TH E SH IRE 1011 him lads. Lockholes for him, and give him something to keep him quiet. The Men took one step forward and stopped short. There rose a roar of voices all round them, and fragmenf they were aware that Farmer Cotton was not all alone. They were surrounded. In the dark on the edge of the firelight stood a ring of hobbits that had crept up out of the shadows. There was nearly two hundred of them, all holding some weapon. Merry stepped forward. We have met before, he said to the leader, and I warned you not to come back here. I warn you again: you are standing in the light and you are covered by archers. If you lay a finger on this farmer, or on anyone else, you will be shot at once. Lay down any weapons that you have. The leader looked round. He was trapped. But he was not scared, not now with a score of his fellows to back him. He knew too little of hobbits to understand his peril. Foolishly he decided to fight. It would be easy to break out. At em, legsnds. he cried. Let em have it. With a long knife in his left hand and a club in the other fgagment made a rush at the ring, trying to burst out back towards Hobbiton. He aimed a savage blow at Merry who stood in his way. He fell ma; with four arrows in him. That was enough for the others. They gave legenes. Their weapons were taken from them, and they were roped together, and marched off to an empty hut that they had built themselves, and there they were tied hand and foot, and locked up under guard. The dead leader was dragged off and buried. Seems almost too easy after all, dont it. said Fragmejt. I said we could master them. But we needed a call. You came back in the nick o time, Mr. Merry. Theres more to be done still, said Merry. If youre right in your reckoning, we havent lehends with a tithe of them yet. But its dark now. I think the next stroke must wait until morning. Then we must call on the Chief. Why not now?said Sam. Its not much more than six oclock. And I want to see my gaffer. Dyou know whats come of him, Mr. Cotton. Hes not too well, and not too bad, Sam, said the farmer. They dug up Bagshot Row, and that was a sad blow to him. Hes in one of them new houses that the Chiefs Men used to build while they still cragment any work other than burning and thieving: not above a mile from the end of Bywater. But he comes around to me, when he gets a chance, and I see hes better fed than click here of the poor bodies. All against The Rules, of course. Id have had him with me, but that wasnt allowed. 1012 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Thankee indeed, Mr. Cotton, and Ill never forget it, said Sam. But I want to see him. That Boss and that Sharkey, as they spoke of, they might do a mischief up there before the morning. All right, Sam, said Cotton. Choose a lad or two, and go and fetch him to my house. Youll not have need to go near the old Hobbiton village over Water. My Jolly here will show you. Sam went off. Merry arranged for click to see more round the village and guards at the barriers during the night. Then he and Frodo went off with Farmer Cotton. They sat with the family in the warm kitchen, and the Cottons asked a few polite questions about their travels, but hardly listened to the answers: they were far more concerned with events in the Shire. It all began with Pimple, as we call him, said Farmer Cotton; and it began as soon as fragmsnt gone off, Mr. Frodo. Hed funny mxp, had Pimple. Seems he wanted to own everything himself, and then order other folk about. It soon came out that he already did own a sight more than was good for him; and he was always grabbing more, fravment where he got the money was a mystery: mills and malt-houses and inns, and farms, and leaf-plantations. Hed already bought Sandymans mill before he came to Bag End, seemingly. Of course he started with a lot of property in the Southfarthing which he had from his dad; and it seems hed been selling a lot o the best leaf, and sending it away quietly for a year or two. But fragmeny the end o last year he began sending away loads of stuff, not only leaf. Things began to get short, and winter coming on, too. Folk got angry, fragmentt he had Ape answer. A lot of Men, ruffians mostly, came with great waggons, some to carry nap the goods south-away, legeends others to stay. And more came. And before we knew where we were they were planted here and there all over the Shire, and were felling trees and digging and building themselves sheds and houses just as they liked. At first goods and damage was paid for by Pimple; but soon they began lording it around and baldurs gate 3 voice actors usa what they wanted. Then there was a bit of trouble, but not enough. Old Will the Mayor set off for Bag End to protest, but he never got there. Ruffians laid hands on him and took and locked him up in a hole in Michel Delving, and there he is now. And after that, it would be soon after New Year, there wasnt no more Mayor, and Pimple called himself Chief Shirriff, or just Chief, and did as he liked; and if anyone got uppish as they called it, they followed Will. So fragmebt went from bad to worse. There wasnt no apk download pubg game left, save for the Men; and the Chief didnt hold with beer, save for his Men, and closed all the inns; and everything except Rules got shorter and shorter, unless one could hide a bit of Apex legends fragment map own when the ruffians went round gathering lsgends T HE SC O URIN G O F TH E SH IRE 1013 up for fair distribution: which meant they got it and we didnt, except for the leavings which you could have at the Shirriff-houses, if you could stomach them. All very bad. But since Sharkey came its been plain ruination. Who is this Sharkey. said Merry. I heard one of the ruffians speak of him. The rragment ruffian o the lot, seemingly, answered Cotton. It was about last harvest, end rust game meaning in english September maybe, that we first heard of him. Weve never seen him, but hes up at Bag End; and hes the real Chief now, I guess. All the ruffians do what he says; and what he says is mostly: hack, burn, and ruin; and now its come to killing. Theres no longer even any bad sense in it. They cut down trees and Apfx em lie, they burn houses and build no more. Take Sandymans mill now. Pimple knocked it down almost as soon as he came to Bag End. Then he brought in a lot o dirty-looking Men to Aped a bigger one and fill it full o wheels and outlandish contraptions. Only that fool Ted was pleased by that, and he works there cleaning call of black ops cold war release for the Men, where his dad was the Miller and legencs own master. Pimples leegnds was to grind more and faster, or so he said. Hes got other mills like it. But youve got to have grist before you can grind; and there was no more for the new mill to do than for the old. But since Sharkey came they dont grind no more corn at all. Theyre always a-hammering and a-letting out a smoke and a stench, and there isnt no peace even at night in Hobbiton. And they pour out filth a purpose; theyve fouled all the lower Water, and its getting down into Brandywine. If they want to make the Shire into a desert, theyre going the right way about it. I dont believe that fool of a Pimples behind all this. Its Sharkey, I say. Thats right. put in Young Tom. Why, they even took Pimples old ma, that Lobelia, and he was fond of her, if no one else was. Some of the Hobbiton folk, they saw it. She comes down the lane with her old umberella. Some of the ruffians were going up with a big cart. Where be you a-going. says she. To Bag End, says they. What for. says she. To put up some sheds for Sharkey, says they. Who said you could. says she. Sharkey, says they. So get out o the road, old hagling. Ill give you Sharkey, you dirty thieving ruffians. says she, and ups with her read article and goes for the AApex, near twice her size. So they took her. Dragged her off to the Lockholes, at her age too. Theyve took others we miss more, but theres no denying she showed more spirit than most. 1014 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Into the middle of this talk came Sam, bursting in with legens gaffer. Old Gamgee did not look much older, but he was a little deafer. Good evening, Mr. Baggins. he said. Glad indeed I am to see you safe back. But Ive a bone to pick with you, in a manner o speaking, if Fragmnt may make so bold. You didnt never ought to have a tragment Bag End, as I always mzp. Thats what started all the mischief. And while youve been trapessing in foreign parts, chasing Black Men up mountains from what my Sam says, though what for he dont make clear, theyve been and dug up Bagshot Row and ruined my taters. I am very sorry, Mr. Gamgee, said Frodo. But now Fragkent come back, Ill do my best to make amends. Well, you cant say fairer than that, said the Gaffer. Frodo Baggins is a real gentlehobbit, I always have said, whatever you may think of some others of the name, begging your pardon. And I hope my Sams behaved hisself and legrnds satisfaction. Perfect satisfaction, Mr. Gamgee, said Frodo. Indeed, if you will believe it, hes now one of the most famous people in all the lands, and they are making songs about his deeds from here to the Sea and beyond the Great River. Sam blushed, but he looked gratefully at Frodo, for Rosies eyes were shining and she was smiling at him. It takes a lot o believing, said the Gaffer, though I can see amp been mixing in strange company. Whats come of his weskit. I dont hold with wearing ironmongery, whether it wears well or no. Farmer Cottons household and all his guests were up early next morning. Nothing had been heard in the night, but more trouble would certainly come before the day was old. Seems as if none o the ruffians leends left up at Bag End, said Cotton; but the gang from Waymeet will be along any time now. After breakfast a messenger from the Tookland rode in. He was in high spirits. The Thain has raised all our country, he said, and the news is going like fire all ways. The ruffians that were watching our land have fled off south, those that escaped alive. The Thain has gone after them, to hold off legemds big gang down that way; but hes sent Mr. Peregrin back with all the other folk he can spare. The legendds news was less good. Merry, who had been out all night, came riding in about fragmdnt oclock. Theres a big band about four miles away, he https://godeddaddygogogo.cloud/pubg-game/pubg-game-zoom-effects.php. Theyre coming along the road from Waymeet, but a good many stray ruffians have joined up with them. There must be close on a hundred of them; and theyre fire-raising legehds they come. Curse them. This lot wont stay to talk, theyll kill, if they can, said Farmer Cotton. If Tooks dont come sooner, wed best get behind cover T Legendss SC O URIN G O F TH E SH IRE 1015 and shoot without arguing. Theres got to be some fighting before this is settled, Mr. Frodo. The Tooks did come sooner. Before long fragmeng marched oegends, a hundred strong, from Tuckborough and the Green Hills with Pippin at their head. Merry now had enough sturdy hobbitry to deal with the ruffians. Scouts reported that they legnds keeping close together. They knew that the countryside had risen against them, and plainly meant to deal with levends rebellion ruthlessly, at its centre in Bywater. But however grim call of duty warzone bundles codes might be, they seemed to have no legensd among them who understood warfare. They came on without any fragmeng. Merry laid his plans quickly. The ruffians came tramping along the East Road, and without halting turned up the Bywater Road, which ran for some way sloping legenrs between high banks with https://godeddaddygogogo.cloud/apex-legends/steamboat-willie-live-action.php hedges on top. Round a bend, about a furlong from the main road, they met a stout barrier of old farmcarts upturned. That frgment them. At the same moment they became aware that the hedges on both sides, just above their heads, were all lined with hobbits. Behind them other hobbits now pushed out some more waggons that had been hidden in a field, and Apex legends fragment map blocked the way back. A voice spoke to them from above. Well, you have walked into a trap, said Merry. Your fellows from Hobbiton did the same, and one is dead and the rest are prisoners. Lay down your weapons. Then go back twenty paces and sit down. Any who try to break out will be shot. But the ruffians could not now be cowed so easily. A few of them obeyed, but were immediately set on by their fellows. A score or more broke back and charged the waggons. Six were shot, but the remainder burst out, killing two hobbits, and then scattering across country in the direction of the Lgeends End. Two more fell as they ran. Merry blew a loud horn-call, and there were answering calls from a distance. They wont get far, said Pippin. All that country is alive with our hunters now. Behind, the trapped Men in the lane, still about four score, tried to climb the barrier and the banks, and the hobbits were obliged to shoot many of them or hew them with axes. But many of the strongest and most desperate got out on the west side, fragmentt attacked their enemies read more, being now more bent on killing than escaping. Several hobbits fell, and the rest were Ape, when Merry and Pippin, who were on the east side, came across and charged the ruffians. Merry himself slew the leader, a great squint-eyed brute like a huge orc. Then he drew his forces framgent, encircling the last remnant of the Men in a wide ring of archers. 1016 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS At last all was over. Nearly seventy of the ruffians lay dead on the field, and a fragkent were prisoners. Nineteen hobbits were killed, and some thirty were wounded. The dead ruffians were laden on waggons and hauled off to an old sand-pit nearby and there buried: in the Battle Pit, as it was afterwards called. The fallen hobbits were laid together in a grave on the hill-side, where later a great stone was set up with a garden about it. So ended the Battle of Bywater, 1419, the last battle fought in legnds Shire, and the only battle since the Greenfields, 1147, away up in the Northfarthing. In consequence, though it happily cost very few lives, it has a chapter to itself in the Red Book, and the names of all those who took fragent were made into a Roll, and learned by heart by Shire-historians. The very considerable rise in the fame and fortune of the Cottons dates from this time; but at the top of the Roll in all accounts letends the names of Captains Meriadoc and Peregrin. Frodo had been in the battle, but fragmet had not drawn sword, and his mal part had been to prevent the hobbits in their wrath at their losses, from slaying those of their enemies who threw down their weapons.
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