The Hobbit's Alphabet 2 (16/26)
"MerryMerryMerry!" Oh no, not now...
"Pippin, go away," Merry said, glaring at his smaller cousin from his chair by the window. After a whole day entertaining the hyperactive toddler, he felt he'd earned a short rest in the library.
"I drew you a picture," he said, clambering onto Merry's lap, ignoring the tone of voice.
"Oh really."
"Yep," he answered, smiling and holding out the piece of torn paper in his hand. "That's you," Pip said, peering over the top of the paper and pointing to a yellow blob with large grey circles in the middle, "and that's me!" he added, placing a hand over a blue blob with green circles.
Merry took the picture from him, looking at it more closely before looking back at the beaming Took.
"Clever boy," he said, poking his cousin's nose. "Why are you blue?"
"I was wearing blue," Pippin answered, "and then I spilt some tea and I had to change. Do you like it? You can put it on your bedroom wall at home."
"It's lovely, Pip." Merry closed his book and put it down on the table next to him. He could always have that break after Pippin had gone to sleep.