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Apr. 23rd, 2008 08:48 pmdreamflowerI'm sorry I missed wishing you the best of the day, yesterday, so I hope you will enjoy this. Two drabbles and half a drabble, featuring Samwise Gamgee:
Summary: Regarding something every hobbit needs to learn...
(Rated G)
Bounty
“But Dad, why do we need to go looking for greens? There’s a-plenty in the garden!”
The Gaffer shook his head. “O’ course there’s plenty in the garden. But what if summat happened to the garden? You ask old Mr. Bilbo sometime about the Fell Winter, if you want to know why you should learn how to forage! Now, lookit here, my lad! What’s that?”
Sam bent down to examine the plant in question; he sniffed, and then pinched off a bit of one of the leaves. “Why--it’s onion, Dad!” He stood up and glanced around, hoping for something more…
****
After his exchange with Gollum, Sam sighed. He would have to keep the fire in sight, but plain boiled coney would barely fill the belly. He gave a sniff, looking about the edges of the clearing--there was a clean, green smell here, that spoke of a bounty of forage.
Aha! Wild onion. And a little searching brought him wild thyme as well, though no sage, no handy bay tree. But there was rampion, and wild carrot--though the roots of both might be a bit woody--and young dandelion, rosemary…
Well, there’d be summat more than coney in the stew now.
****
Frodo-lad hurried to keep up with his father’s stride. It was an early spring day, and he wondered why they were not in the garden. There was a mort of work to be done this time of year. “But Sam-dad! Why do we need to go looking for greens?”
Summary: Regarding something every hobbit needs to learn...
(Rated G)
Bounty
“But Dad, why do we need to go looking for greens? There’s a-plenty in the garden!”
The Gaffer shook his head. “O’ course there’s plenty in the garden. But what if summat happened to the garden? You ask old Mr. Bilbo sometime about the Fell Winter, if you want to know why you should learn how to forage! Now, lookit here, my lad! What’s that?”
Sam bent down to examine the plant in question; he sniffed, and then pinched off a bit of one of the leaves. “Why--it’s onion, Dad!” He stood up and glanced around, hoping for something more…
****
After his exchange with Gollum, Sam sighed. He would have to keep the fire in sight, but plain boiled coney would barely fill the belly. He gave a sniff, looking about the edges of the clearing--there was a clean, green smell here, that spoke of a bounty of forage.
Aha! Wild onion. And a little searching brought him wild thyme as well, though no sage, no handy bay tree. But there was rampion, and wild carrot--though the roots of both might be a bit woody--and young dandelion, rosemary…
Well, there’d be summat more than coney in the stew now.
****
Frodo-lad hurried to keep up with his father’s stride. It was an early spring day, and he wondered why they were not in the garden. There was a mort of work to be done this time of year. “But Sam-dad! Why do we need to go looking for greens?”