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acquired a good many of his spoons while he was away - ninety odd
years before. Bingo inherited the belief, and Grimalda [) Lobelia]
knew it.

It is also mentioned that 'Bingo had very carefully disposed of his
treasures: books, pictures, and a collection of toys. For his wines
he found a very good (if temporary) home. Most of them went to
Marmaduke Brandybuck' (predecessor of Meriadoc). The original draft
is closely followed in the absence of any money or jewelry, and in the legal
notice disposing of Bag End to the Sackville-Bagginses (but Bilbo's
cousin now becomes Otho, and their occupancy is to start from Sep-
tember 24th)- 'and they got Bag-end after all, though they had to wait 93
years longer for it than they had once expected': III less 51 plus 33, see
pp. 31-2.(8) Sancho Proudfoot appears, excavating in the pantry where he
thought there was an echo (as in FR, p. 48); physically attacked by Otho
Sackville-Baggins, he was only finally ejected by the lawyers, first called
'Grubbs and Burrowes', as in The Hobbit, then changed to 'Messrs. lago
Grubb and Folco Burrowes (Bingo's lawyers)'.
The conclusion of the third version I give in full.

The fact is Bingo's money had become a legend, and everybody
was puzzled and anxious - though still hopeful. How he would
have laughed. Indeed he was as near laughing as he dared at that
very moment, for he was inside a large cupboard outside the
dining-room door, and heard most of the racket. He was inside, of
course, not for concealment, but to avoid being bumped into,
being totally invisible. He had to laugh rather privately and
silently, but all the same he was enjoying his joke: it was turning
out so much like his expectation.

I suppose it is now becoming all too plain to everyone but the
anxious and grabsome hobbits. The fact is that (in spite of certain
things in his after-dinner speech) Bingo had grown suddenly tired
of them all. A violent fit of Tookishness had come over him - not
of course that all Tooks had much of this wayward quality, their
mothers being Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles,
Grubbs and what not; but Tooks were on the whole the most
jocular and unexpected of Hobbits. Also I can tell you something
more, in case you have not guessed: Bingo had no money or



jewelry left! Practically none, that is. Nothing worth digging up a
nice hobbit-hole for. Money went a prodigious way in those days,
and one could get quite a lot of things without it; but he had blown
his last 500 ducats on the birthday party. That was Brandybuck-
some of him. After that he had nothing left but the buttons on his
waistcoat, a small bag-purse of silver, and his ring. In the course of
33 years he had contrived to spend all the rest - what was left, that
is, by his father, who had done a bit of spending in fifty years (9) (and