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English[en]
Days passed and The Day drew nearer. An odd-looking waggon laden with odd-looking packages rolled into Hobbiton one evening and toiled up the Hill to Bag End. The startled hobbits peered out of lamplit doors to gape at it. It was driven by outlandish folk, singing strange songs: dwarves with long beards and deep hoods. A few of them remained at Bag End. At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of the Brandywine Bridge in broad daylight. An old man was driving it all alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out beyond the brim of his hat. Small hobbit-children ran after the cart all through Hobbiton and right up the hill. It had a cargo of fireworks, as they rightly guessed. At Bilbo’s front door the old man began to unload: there were great bundles of fireworks of all sorts and shapes, each labelled with a large red G and the elf-rune, .
Cornish[kw]
Dydhyow a dremenas ha’n jydh a dheuth nessa. Kert koynt leun gans fardellow koynt a rolyas yn Hobyton unn gorthugher ha lavuryas yn-bann an vre dhe Bag End. An Hobytyow amovys a lagattas orto dre dharasow enowys gans lugarn. Lywys veu gans tus ankoth, ow kana kanow koynt: korryon gans barv hir ha kogh down. Nebes anedha a wodrigas dhe Bag End. Dhe benn nessa seythun mis Gwynngala, kert a dheuth dre Baywoter a-dhiworth fordh Pons Brandiwayn yn golow splann an jydh. Gour koth a’n lywyas yn unnsel. Yth esa hatt glas hir minyek, mantel hir loes, ha lien konna arghans dhodho. Yth esa barv hir gwynn dhodho ha’y dhewabrans a ystynnas dres kammek y hatt. Fleghes byghan a holyas an kert dre Hobyton oll hag yn-bann an vre. Yth esa karg a danweyth dhodho, dell dismygsons i yn ewn. Dhe dharas a-rag Bylbo, an gour koth a dhallathas diskarga: yth esa fardellow meur a danwethyow a bub eghenn ha furv, pub o libelys gans ‘G’ bras rudh ha’n run-elf.