A most unusual hobbit is Meribella, queer from the start most folk say, though they say it behind closed doors and even then with hushed tones.

 An only child, Meribella Foxburr was doted upon by her mother Lily, who always wanted a daughter, though no less loved by her father, Bounder Brock, though he had wanted a son. As it turned out, little Meribella took after he father from the off, if you get me. Poor Lily tried to give her doll's and encouraged Meribella to play nicely with the other hobbit lass', but to no avail. The young Foxburr was more often seen with the boys, wrestling, in a friendly fashion mind, and what's more, winning! Folk in scary laughed at first, but soon tongues begin to wag. "It's not right." They said, "no good will come of it". 

 Discarding her doll's for pretend weapons, Meribella quickly became the apple of her father's eye, and he the Hero of hers. She would stand at the doorstep watching him leave, all dressed in his Bounder uniform, and once he had disapeared around the lane she would spend the rest of the day in a world of her own, beating the bounds of their small hobbit hole and defending it from imaginary bad 'uns.

 Lily tried to persuade Meribella to take on more 'suitable' pastimes, like cooking and needlework, and though Meribella showed intrest, she was forever running off to play her own games and beat the bounds. First their hobbit hole, then the garden, as she got older, the lane and then the outskirts of Scary. 

 As soon as she was of age, Meribella, to noones great surprise, joined the Bounder's, becoming the first female Bounder that many could recall, what happened after ... well ... that's for her to tell isn't it?