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‘Whee! Tom Bombadil! Whither be you going,

bobbing in a cockle-boat, down the river rowing?’

‘Maybe to Brandywine along the Withywindle;

maybe friends of mine fire for me will kindle

down by the Hays-end. Little folk I know there,

kind at the day’s end.

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Nos. 1 and 2 evidently come from the Buckland. They show more knowledge of that country, and of the Dingle, the wooded valley of the Withywindle, {Grindwall was a small port on the north bank of the Withywindle; it was located outside the Barrier and was therefore well guarded and protected by a grind or fence that extended into the water.

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