Etymology is a fascinating field of study. A professor of mine from
college would spend hours in our biology classes going over the
simplest of words and exhaustively showing it's origin and
evolution. I cherish the value in letters and words. I am always
amazed at how letters can be scribbled down together and form
recognizable sounds that we eventually call words. Where would we
be today without the scrawlings of Greek and Roman scholars?
I enjoy the way a story teller weaves their mural of words. JRR
Tolkien, Stephen King, JK Rowling, Clive Cussler each have their
unique styles of brushing their pens against canvas and giving us
worlds and characters to delight and thrill us.
Many will recognize this small piece from a very beloved
classic. Anyway. Here is it is. Enjoy.
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What Is A Hobbit?
In a hole in the groun there lived a hobit. Not a nasty, dirty,
wet hole, filled with the ends of
wors and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothin
in it to sit dow on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that mens
comfort.
It had a perectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob
in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like
a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoe, with panelled
walls, and floors, tiled and carpeted, provied with polished
chairs, and lots and lots of pegs
for hats and coats – the hobbit was fond of visitors. The
tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into
the side of the hill – The Hill, as all people for many miles
round called it – and many little round doors opened out of
it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for
the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these),
wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining
rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage.
The best rooms were all on the left hand side (going in), for these
were the only ones to have windows, deep-set rond windows looking
over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the
river.
I supose hobbits need some description nowaays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big
People, as they call us. They are (or were) a little people, about
half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves. Hobbits have
no beards. There is little or no magic about them, ecept the
ordinary everyday sort which helps them disappar quietly and
quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering
along, making a
noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off. They are
inclined to be fat in the stoach; they dress in bright colors
(chiefly green and yellow); wear no shoes, because their feet grow
natural leathery soles and thick warm brown hair like the stuff on
their heads (which is curly); have long clever bron fingers, good
– natured faces, and laugh deep fruity laughs (especially
after dinner, which they have twice a day when they can get
it).
From: "The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien.
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Well, that is all I have...
Happy Hunting.
~TMM007
Please rehide cache EXACTLY as you found it. And also be mindful
of security ... we want this cache to last a long, long, long
time...
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Original Cache Contents:
FTF prize - FTF gets to choose which of the 'grand prizes' to
take. STF prize - STF gets sloppy seconds. I will not disclose them
here but trust me they are good.
Silver Carribeaner
The LEO TB
The Lady Bug TB
The Vancouver Key Ring TB that has traveled 31,162Miles!!
US Flag Swag Pin
Swag for the kids.
Cache Log
Pens to sign log
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You can check your answers for this puzzle on
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Just determine for N XX.XXX and for W
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At the GZ... your still gonna have to hunt... it's a puzzle
cache but I promise your within 10 feet +/-.