The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

“Up the trees quick!” cried Gandalf;and they ran to the trees at the edge of theglade, hunting for those that had branchesfairly low, or were slender enough toswarm up. They found them as quick asever they could, you can guess; and upthey went as high as ever they could trustthe branches. You would have laughed(from a safe distance), if you had seen thedwarves sitting up in the trees with theirbeards dangling down, like old gentlemengone cracked and playing at being boys.Fili and Kili were at the top of a tall larchlike an enormous Christmas tree. Dori,Nori, Ori, Oin, and Gloin were morecomfortable in a huge pine with regularbranches sticking out at intervals like thespokes of a wheel. Bifur, Bofur, Bombur,and Thorin were in another. Dwalin and