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Sired by Torquamada Buckingham Caernholme III, out of Esmeralda Vanderbilt Bagfallan-Proudfoot.
Full name Hamstretham Woldenstock Issentar Caernholme, after various grand, great grand, and great
great grand fathers.
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Disparaging of the world he was born in to, a life of social and political manoeuvring, financial excess
and the beating of servants, he preferred the woods and vales of the extensive Caernholme estates.
He loved the rivers, the streams, the plants and in particular, the animals, which in contrast to his
parents he didn't like shooting, hunting, trapping and nailing to trees.
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One afternoon after witnessing a particularly unpleasant morning of Field Mouse coursing by his parents and
their visiting families, he organised a rodents revolt. Two days later he lost control of the Rodent Ruling
Revolutionary Council to a small squirrel called Mike. The following day his father was nibbled to death by
a warren of rabbits he was digging out.
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Mortified by the terror he had unleashed Hamwold swung his interests to the League of Mustelids, where he
acquired the name Stoat. Using his comrades to suppress the Rodent revolt he nevertheless realised that he
should leave his homelands.
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His early wanderings brought him into contact with a wise old Druid called Swamp-Bog Henry. Swamp-Bog took
the young hobbit under his wing and taught Hamwold everything he new. This didn't turn out to be a great
deal and a lot of it included recipes for such culinary treats as Sphagnum Pie, Sphagnum salad, Sphagnum on
toast, Sphagnum cheesecake etc.
Swamp-bog soon realised that Hamwold wasn't really cut out for the life of a bog druid. Most of the bogs
were deeper that he was tall for starters which was always a disadvantage. The druid reluctantly sent
Hamwold on his way, filling his pockets with Sphagnum moss in case he got peckish, telling him to head for
the big city and that he, Hamwold Stoat, would have to find his own path in life.
And so things began.
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