“Ss, ss, ss,“ said Gollum. He had been underground a long long time, and was forgetting this sort of thing. But just as Bilbo was beginning to hope that the wretch would not be able to answer, Gollum brought up memories of ages and ages and ages before, when he lived with his grandmother in a hole in a bank by a river, “Sss, sss, my preciouss,” he said. “Sun on the daisies it means, it does.”
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“It must make haste, haste!” said Gollum, beginning to climb out of his boat on the shore to get at Bilbo. But when he put his long webby foot in the water, a fish jumped out in a fright and fell on Bilbo’s toes.
“Ugh!” he said, “it is cold and clammy!” - and so he guessed. “Fish! Fish!” he cried. “It is fish!”
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Fortunately he had once heard something rather like this before, and getting his wits back he thought of the answer. “Wind, wind of course,” he said, and he was so pleased that he made up one on the spot.
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But suddenly Gollum remembered thieving from nests long ago, and sitting under the river bank teaching his grandmother, teaching his grandmother to suck- ”Eggses!” he hissed. “Eggses it is!” (An egg, eggs)
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“Chestnuts, chestnuts,” he hissed. “Teeth! teeth! my preciousss; but we has only six!
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His tongue seemed to stick in his mouth; he wanted to shout out: “Give me mor time! Give me time!“ But all that came out with a sudden squeal was:
“Time! Time!“
Bilbo was saved by pure luck. For that of course was the answer.
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„Fish on a little table, man at table sitting on a stool, the cat has the bones“ that of course is the answer, and Gollum soon gave it.
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“Dark!” he said without even scratching his head or putting on his thinking cap.
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