[Frodo can't help it, he looks really impressed. All the time he says, and all those crops! and whole bags of potatoes.

Wait.]

But you had a friend to help you and those weren't his mushrooms in any case. He loves his mushrooms! So a real challenge would be to lift those!

[Frodo does beam at him though, more freely than he had in a long time.

At last, a grown up who sees what an accomplishment it is. Instead of scolding him or taking him by the ear]

It is, and you are right, I don't think any will! I think I like you, even if you are a grown; if I had made a run on his fields, I'd even give you some mushrooms.

[only some though. The rest are his. It's the thought that counts though]