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the road; wide steps and a large white gate were built' (as in
FR). Gaffer Gamgee comes in again: 'he stopped even pre-
tending to garden.'

The day of the party was still a Saturday (September 22nd).

Many of the toys ('some obviously magical') that had come
from Dale were 'genuinely dwarf-made'.

(22). It is Bingo, not Gandalf, who at the end of the fireworks says
'That is the signal for supper! ', and though it was said at first, as
m the second version, that the total of 144 guests did not include
the host and Gandalf, this was struck out (see p. 106, note 12).

A new Hobbit family-name enters in the list of guests: 'and
various Burroweses, Slocums, Bracegirdles, Boffinses and
Proudfoots', but 'Slocums' was then changed to 'Hornblowers',
which was also added in to the text at subsequent points in the
chapter. The Bolgers appear in pencilled additions, and are
present from the start in the fourth version. In his letter to the
Observer newspaper published on 20 February 1938 (Letters
no. 25) my father said: 'The full list of their wealthier families is:
Baggins, Boffin, Bolger, Bracegirdle, Brandybuck, Burrowes,
Chubb, Grubb, Hornblower, Proudfoot, Sackville, and Took.'
- The Grubbs, connexions of Bingo's grandfather, became by
a pencilled change connexions of his grandmother; and the
Chubbs, in a reverse change, were first said to be connexions of
his grandmother and then of his grandfather.
Where in the first and second versions it is said that some of
the hobbits at the party came from 'the other side of the shire', it
is now said that some of them 'did not even live in that county',
changed to 'in that Shire', and 'in that Shire' was retained in the
fourth version. The use of 'that' rather than 'the' suggests that
the later use (cf. the Prologue to LR, p. 14: 'The Hobbits
named it the Shire, as the region of the authority of their
Thain') was only in the process of emergence.

The coldness between the Bagginses of Bag End and the
Sackville-Bagginses had now lasted, not 20 years as in the first
two versions, but 'some seventy-five years and more': this
figure depends on III (Bilbo's age when he finally disappeared)
less 51 (he was 'about fifty years old or so' at the time of his
great adventure, according to The Hobbit), plus the 16 years

of Bingo's solitary residence at Bag End. 'Seventy-five' was
emended to 'ninety' (a round figure), which belongs with the
change of 16 to 33 (p. 30).

(23). Bingo was liable to allude to 'the absurd adventures of his
"gallant and famous" father'.