Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for the cause of trouble. 'There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. 'You shouldn't listen to all you hear, Sandyman,' said the Gaffer, who did not much like the miller. 'And I heard she pushed him in, and he pulled her in after him,' said Sandyman, the Hobbiton miller. 'I've heard they went on the water after dinner in the moonlight,' said Old Noakes 'and it was Drogo's weight as sunk the boat.' And Mr Drogo was staying at Brandy Hall with his father-in-law, old Master Gorbadoc, as he often did after his marrriage (him being partial to his vitttles, and old Gorbadoc keeping a mighty generous table) and he went out boating on the Brandywine River and he and his wife were drownded, and poor Mr Frodo only a child and all.' So Mr Frodo is his first and second cousin, once removed either way, as the saying is, if you follow me. She was our Mr Bilbo's first cousin on the mother's side (her mother being the youngest of the Old Took's daughters) and Mr Drogo was his second cousin. 'You see: Mr Drogo, he married poor Miss Primula Brandibuck. They had heard this and other darker rumours before, of course but hobbits have a passion for family history, and they were ready to hear it again. ' A decent respectable hobbit was Mr Drogo Baggins there was never much to tell of him, till he was drownded.' Bilbo never did a kinder deed than when he brought the lad back to live among decent folk.įrom The Fellowship of the Ring, chapter A Long-expected Party, the Gaffer telling: Old Master Gorbadoc never had fewer than a couple of hundred relations in the place. Frodo left an orphan and stranded, as you might say, among those queer Bucklanders, being brought up anyhow in Brandy Hall. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking further for the cause of trouble. ‘There isn’t no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. ‘You shouldn’t listen to all you hear, Sandyman,’ said the Gaffer, who did not much like the miller. ‘And I heard she pushed him in, and he pulled her in after him,’ said Sandyman, the Hobbiton miller. ‘I’ve heard they went on the water after dinner in the moonlight,’ said Old Noakes ‘and it was Drogo’s weight as sunk the boat.’

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