Queer goings-on, and no mistake. They said it was because they had extra after building that horrible Quonset hut over the Party Tree, and they were trying to unload it. Strange folk hereabouts. A lot more money in circulation. Market's been doing well.
Unionization is down because of all the entry-level service positions that are being created.
Good to find work for idle hands. Mr. Bilbo Baggins is a right bastard, as I've often said, and it's small wonder if trouble don't come of him and his imperialist ways. At last the day of the Big Party arrived. Everywhere there was too much to eat, and by midafternoon there were broken presents lying all over the Shire attesting to the low quality of their manufacture. Gandalf set off a series of fireworks later on in the day, including great skywriting missiles and little flaming butterflies who took to wing, sailed off into the Eastfarthing and burned all its trees to the ground.