The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

heads (which is curly); have long cleverbrown fingers, good-natured faces, andlaugh deep fruity laughs (especially afterdinner, which they have twice a day whenthey can get it). Now you know enough togo on with. As I was saying, the mother ofthis hobbit—of Bilbo Baggins, that is—was the famous Belladonna Took, one ofthe three remarkable daughters of the OldTook, head of the hobbits who livedacross The Water, the small river that ranat the foot of The Hill. It was often said(in other families) that long ago one of theTook ancestors must have taken a fairywife. That was, of course, absurd, butcertainly there was still something notentirely hobbitlike about them, and once ina while members of the Took-clan wouldgo and have adventures. They discreetly