The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

the butler and give warning if they stirred.The rest went into the adjoining cellarwith the trapdoors. There was little timeto lose. Before long, as Bilbo knew, someelves were under orders to come downand help the butler get the empty barrelsthrough the doors into the stream. Thesewere in fact already standing in rows inthe middle of the floor waiting to bepushed off. Some of them were winebarrels,and these were not much use, asthey could not easily be opened at the endwithout a deal of noise, nor could theyeasily be secured again. But among themwere several others, which had been usedfor bringing other stuffs, butter, apples,and all sorts of things, to the king’spalace.They soon found thirteen with room