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Title: Gardener's Yield (#2339)
Author: NancyBrooke
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: The Gaffer reflects on his finest. Response to Weekly Drabble Challenge #33: Parent and Child
Published: 31 Oct 2005
Updated: 31 Oct 2005
Warnings:
Type: General
Characters: Hamfast Gamgee; Sam Gamgee


Chapter 1 - Gardener's Yield

Six children, six! We’ve been lucky, Bell and me, blessed.

Gamgees have been tending the Hill for four generations now; four! But there’s just my Sam, now, my Sam’s stayed to home.

A gardener wants to plant somethin’ that’ll grow, that’ll bloom and give back to the soil. Wild flowers are pretty enough, but they scatter their seeds as can, come what may. That’s not what a gardener wants.

Sam’s had all I’ve got to give, now; oh, not letters and such like but things just as important, and I’ve seen them take root and grow in ‘im.

Aye, blessed.
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