一只狐狸在自己的业务上穿过木头，停止了几分钟，闻了闻。 “霍比特！”他想。 '嗯，接下来是什么？我听说过这片土地上有奇怪的行为，但是我很少听说过一个霍比特人从树下的门外睡觉。他们三个！背后有一些强大的酷儿。他是对的，但他再也没有发现了。
(A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. 'Hobbits!' he thought. 'Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There's something mighty queer behind this.' He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it.)