the VAhLtUM

[Zofia Portnoy]

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torches in their mouths, which they lit at the fire and stuck in low
brackets on the pillars of the hall about the central hearth.
The dogs could stand on their hind-legs when they wished, and carry
things with their fore-feet. Quickly they got out boards and trestles
from the side walls and set them up near the fire.
Then baa-baa-baa! was heard, and in came some snow-white sheep led by
a large coal-black ram. One bore a white cloth embroidered at the edges
with figures of animals; others bore on their broad backs trays with
bowls and platters and knives and wooden spoons, which the dogs took and
quickly laid on the trestle tables. These were very low, low enough even
for Bilbo to sit at comfortably. Beside them a pony pushed two
low-seated benches with wide rush-bottoms and little short thick legs
for Gandalf and Thorin, while at the far end he put Beorns big black