Pippin's Scarf

“What have we here?” Merry asked. He lifted his cousin high into the air and gawked at his choice in clothing. “Are you cold, Pippin?”

“No,” Pippin said, shaking his head so his too-large knitted hat drooped over one eye. Merry smiled and folded over the brim so he could see Pippin’s face.

“He does this all the time,” Eglantine said, smiling as she watched the two cousins from where she sat by the fire sewing. “Don’t you, Pippin?” she asked.

Pippin did not answer, but instead took one end of his scarf and wrapped it around Merry’s neck.

“Now Merry’s warm, too!” he crowed, and laughingly patted his mittened hands on his cousin’s chest.