The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort.

which they called pipe-weed or leaf, a variety probably of Nicotiana.

At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of Brandywine Bridge in broad daylight.

I’m not a thief, whatever he said.’ ‘I have never called you one,’ Gandalf answered. ‘And I am not one either. I am not trying to rob you, but to help you.