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piles of the town, and voices hailed the raft-steerers. Then ropes were
cast and oars were pulled, and soon the raft was drawn out of the
current of the Forest River and towed away round the high shoulder of
rock into the little bay of Lake-town. There it was moored not far from
the shoreward head of the great bridge. Soon men would come up from the
South and take some of the casks away, and others they would fill with
goods they had brought to be taken back up the stream to the Wood-elves
home. In the meanwhile the barrels were left afloat while the elves of
the raft and the boatmen went to feast in Lake-town.
They would have been surprised, if they could have seen what happened
down by the shore, after they had gone and the shades of night had
fallen. First of all a barrel was cut loose by Bilbo and pushed to the
shore and opened. Groans came from inside, and out crept a most unhappy
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