You have done a public service, oh Perilous one. You have salvaged my view of Toller's infancy from a fate as bad as Ruskin's. Bib works here for infant neck apron, but around these parts, 'pinafore' is refers to the large aprons which young girls and teens wore over their dresses in earlier times. Oh these niceties of pond swimming.
But as to the floor: What did Tolkien do in hospital and on leave, after he survived the Battle of the Somme?
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I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.
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