Indeed. May all bagster’s bags be full . . . of gold.
*NOW* you've done it, Jocko.
The talk did not die down in nine or even ninety -nine days. The second troll-hunt of Bagster was discussed in Q threads, and indeed all over the Free Republic forum, for a year and a day, and was remembered much longer than that. It became a fireside -story for young hobbits; and eventually Mad Bagster, who used to vanish with a bang and a flash and reappear with bags of jewels and gold, became a favourite character of legend and lived on long after all the true events were forgotten.