Parr Chopley walks into the Prancing Pony and finds an empty table. Barkuman comes up and smiles at the hobbit.
"How can I help you today?" Barliman asks.
"Do you have boar steaks?" Parr asks.
"Of course."
"I'm so happy I joined the merchants on the trip to Bree than."
"Where did you come from?" Barliman asks.
"Ost Forod, I joined a caravan traveling from the snowy land. I still have trouble believing that there are no boars in Evendim."
"I figured you'd be able to find the beasts anywhere there was grass."
"After I moved to Evendim I missed the taste of boar steak, Parr says. "It was always my favorite. So I hired an adventurer to find a boar and bring me it's meat. She ran around all day and found nothing."
"You might be able to get some shipped up there but it would be expenssive."
"The adventurer remembered looking for a boar though. It surprised me when she showed up with a slab of boar meat."
"She brought you some from outside Evendim," Barliman says "I hope you paid her well."
"No she came across one inside Northcotton Farm. I guess they ran in and started eating crops when a fight began there."
"You got your boar steak, that's good isn't it?"
"No the steak they brought me smelled horrible and had a strange color," Parr says. "I missed the taste so much I cooked it up anyway. It was the most horrible thing I've ever tasted and it made me sick for a week."
"Did it take too long for them to bring it to you?"
"No, they got to me quickly. From what they said the people that attacked were trying to poison the well water at the farm. I figure the boars must have drunk some of the poison."
"That's not good at least it didn't kill you," Barliman says.
"I felt like I was going to die for a while."
"I'll get your boar steak."