Peony had rubbed goodly amounts of Bug Dope onto all her exposed skin before the Fellowship entered the Midgewater Marshes, and endured their jokes about keeping upwind of her in silence. By day's end, they had all sidled up to her and whispered in her ear: "Can you spare me a daub o' that Bug Dope, Peony?"
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"And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water."
-The Return of the King
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