Frodo: I don't want that pie. I wanted the pie next to it.
Barliman: What, that pie? You can't have that pie.
Frodo: I paid you extra for that very pie!
Barliman: I tell you, you cannot have that pie! They are all the same, anyway!
Pie: Quack!
Barliman: ...... The other pie, coming right up, sir.
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But all the while I sit and think of times there were before
I listen for returning feet and voices at the door
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