The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

a while, and can see much without beingseen.”“Not much use, if we have been seencoming here,” said Dori, who was alwayslooking up towards the Mountain’s peak,as if he expected to see Smaug perchedthere like a bird on a steeple.“We must take our chance of that,” saidThorin. “We can go no further to-day.”“Hear, hear!” cried Bilbo, and flunghimself on the ground.In the rock-chamber there would havebeen room for a hundred, and there was asmall chamber further in, more removedfrom the cold outside. It was quitedeserted; not even wild animals seemed tohave used it in all the days of Smaug’sdominion. There they laid their burdens;and some threw themselves down at once