Nov 6: Biscuits (TA 3015, The Shire)

“You told your friends that my ginger biscuits weren't any good?” Estella shrieked.

“Well, not in so many words,” Fatty prevaricated, wishing that he'd left the hole along with Frodo, Merry, and Pippin. He began to back away from his sister as tears of anger trickled down her cheeks.

“It amounted to that! I'm so humiliated! Everyone's—even Violet's!--biscuits got eaten—except mine!”

“Er, well, I'm sorry--” Freddie made a sudden grab for the full plate of ginger biscuits, and dodged out the dining room door, calling back, “But it left them all for me!”