The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

of a really hard one. This he thought adreadfully easy chestnut, though he had notasked it in the usual words. But it proveda nasty poser for Gollum. He hissed tohimself, and still he did not answer; hewhispered and spluttered.After some while Bilbo becameimpatient. “Well, what is it?” he said.“The answer’s not a kettle boiling over, asyou seem to think from the noise you aremaking.”“Give us a chance; let it give us achance, my preciouss—ss—ss.”“Well,” said Bilbo after giving him along chance, “what about your guess?”But suddenly Gollum rememberedthieving from nests long ago, and sittingunder the river bank teaching hisgrandmother, teaching his grandmother to