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(Directly continued from part three)

After such an outstanding entrance, the two were marked as generous eccentrics and were generally accepted by the locals of the town. Many had seen Horfryth before and although Sefa had never been that way, a few recognised her from themselves having travelled to Dale before. Pleasant rumours whispered around the town of the travelling child and her seemingly father-figure who were adjourning in the confines of their beloved abode.

When one walks down the Hill towards Hobbiton and Bywater, this one can hear peculiar rumours. Such as there are longshanks walking freely in the Shire doing what they please or that the young Baggins has now, too, disappeared. I do not know which ones of them rumours are true but that I know. The one telling about the most skillful sculptor in Overhill, that is not only a hearsay.