Happy Birthday, belleferret!
Wishing you health, happiness, hope and hobbits in the year ahead.
For your birthday, a LOTR drabble - the continuing adventures of Bell the Ferret.
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When Bell came back a horrid smell, noise and mess told the story.
Rats! Her fur bristled. Rats, in the big-ferret’s beautiful hidey-hole! (Oh, they looked like Men, but their destruction and foul behavior told the truth.)
The Rats were too big to kill - and she did not want to kill. But drive them out she would, with help.
The local foxes, badgers, and crows loathed the Rats too, and all fought - stolen crops, ruined clothes, undermined roads, bitten ankles and pecked eyes. The weakened Men fell to the big-ferrets’ swords.
And Captain Bell took up residence, her duty done.
For your birthday, a LOTR drabble - the continuing adventures of Bell the Ferret.
***
When Bell came back a horrid smell, noise and mess told the story.
Rats! Her fur bristled. Rats, in the big-ferret’s beautiful hidey-hole! (Oh, they looked like Men, but their destruction and foul behavior told the truth.)
The Rats were too big to kill - and she did not want to kill. But drive them out she would, with help.
The local foxes, badgers, and crows loathed the Rats too, and all fought - stolen crops, ruined clothes, undermined roads, bitten ankles and pecked eyes. The weakened Men fell to the big-ferrets’ swords.
And Captain Bell took up residence, her duty done.