Dear Pearl,

Merry and I have a wonderful plan. We are going to get up tomorrow morning and go to the Maggot’s farm, and take some of his crops. “We will not be stealing,” Merry told me . “We are just going to borrow some, because if we don’t we could die of hunger,” When he said this I told him it didn’t make any sense, but he just shrugged his shoulders and told me to be ready tomorrow morning. It is now nearly supper time so I must be going.

Good morning!!
I ate a small breakfast(as Merry told be to do),and gathered together a few sacks and a basket to carry the vegetables(and mushrooms!) back to the Shire with. And now I am walking to Farmer Maggot’s place with Merry. It is very hard to write with your hands full, and while walking, so I must stop now.

Merry and I have just stopped to eat a snacky(as Merry calles it). I had a carrot which I took from a rabbit, and Merry found some Swallow’s eggs and ate them raw(YUCK!). Merry can be quite disgusting sometimes. Well, we must be on our way. We are nearly there and it is getting brighter very fast, so we must hurry. Merry is telling me to stop writing now.

We found Frodo in the field. I knocked him over(victory!!) while I was running away from Farmer Maggot. We fell down a slope and everyone squished me. Nobody likes me…..
Oh well let me continue. We had to run away from the black riders, I think they’re ghosts. As I–they kjgiuygjbkfwg
Sorry Merry was trying to write something. As I was saying, we got away and went to Bree. We stayed at an Inn called the Prancing Pony, and I was mad because Frodo called himself Mr. Underhill.
There was this strange fellow there who always stared at me, I think he likes how I look! Anyway I told everyone who Frodo really was because he said he was someone else, the dummy. Well he got angry with me and tried to stop me but he tripped on a crack and fell. I laughed so hard I almost fell too. Frodo disapeared, and the next thing I knew, Merry was pulling me off my stool then dragging me up some stairs, and pushing a sick into my hand. Sam was holding a candle and Merry was holding a table, so I thought we were going to put the building on fire and burn the place up. So when Sam opened the door at the end of the stairs I yelled at the top of my lungs and lunged forward because I thought we’d have to scare some people away first, but I almost knocked Sam over, so he made a really angry face. I then saw the man who had stared at me when we first entered the Prancing Pony, so I fixed my jacket so I would look nice.He said his name was Strider. Then I saw Frodo, and got jealous because I thought the man had liked Frodo all along. He said alot of annoying stuff so I just ignored him. For some reason we have to sleep in a room other than the one we had rented. So now I am in a bed writing this letter to you. It may take many days to finish for I am going to be writing it the whole time I am gone.

Last night the black riders went to the room we had at first rented, I heard them. They thought the pillows we had put under some blankets were us, so they killed them. I was laughing so hard when they did it everyone had to hold my mouth shut. Anyway now we have to walk for miles to a place where the Elves live. Sam cannot stop talking about them! He is very irritating. I am very bored so I think I’ll pull a prank…

I did it! Yesterday, Merry and I made a plan. We decided to scare everybody so they would scream. So this is what we did. First, we told everyone we were going to look for some water. So we went into the woods and found some tar Merry had seen earlier. So Merry took out his extra cloak(it was in his bag) and put it in the tar. We then left it out in the sun on a rock to dry. Then there was a problem. While it was trying, the tar had stuck to the rock, so we couldn’t pull the cloak off. When we finally got it off it had a huge bald spot where the tar had come off. And the cloak was stiff. So when Merry put it on he had to hold his arms out all the time and walk around with his back bent. He looked like a monster with a disea-….never mind.

So we got Bill(our pony) and painted him with tar too(bad idea). Then, Bill couldn’t walk. Merry got on and I had to push Bill to where we wanted him to be(the top of a hill over looking our campsite for the night). Then Merry started making this horrible moaning sound, and I ran away, because I didn’t know it was him. Then Bill fell forward and and rolled down the hill(with Merry still on him) and landed on everyone. They all jumped up and ran away. I came back just in time to see all that. So I ran down the hill and helped Merry up. By the time everyone came back(which took a while) Merry was out of his tar cloak and Bill was running around getting the last bits of tar off. I was sitting on a rock laughing at them as they all sat down. “You should’ve seen yourselves!” I laughed. But no one else smiled. Then I knew I was in trouble. So they said Merry and I are not alowed to eat all day tomorrow! I think I will die!

Merry and I were able to get a little bit of food today, but that was only breakfast. When we finally stopped for second breakfast, Strider wouldn’t let us eat. But out of the sky flew an apple which bumped me on the head!!

I will write the rest of the story soon! This is part 1.