The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

unusual at auctions). Bilbo’s cousins theSackville-Bagginses were, in fact, busymeasuring his rooms to see if their ownfurniture would fit. In short Bilbo was“Presumed Dead”, and not everybody thatsaid so was sorry to find the presumptionwrong.The return of Mr. Bilbo Bagginscreated quite a disturbance, both under theHill and over the Hill, and across theWater; it was a great deal more than anine days’ wonder. The legal bother,indeed, lasted for years. It was quite along time before Mr. Baggins was in factadmitted to be alive again. The peoplewho had got specially good bargains at theSale took a deal of convincing; and in theend to save time Bilbo had to buy backquite a lot of his own furniture. Many of