Boggies are an unattractive but annoying people whose numbers have
increased rather precipitously since the bottom fell out of the fairy-tale
market. Slow and sullen, and yet dull, they prefer to lead simple lives of
pastoral squalor. They don't like machines more complicated than a garotte,
a blackjack, or a luger, and they have always been shy of the 'big folk' or
'biggers' as they call us. As a rule they avoid us, except on rare
occasions when a hundred or so will get together to dry-gulch a lone farmer
or hunter. They seldom exceed three feet in height, but are fully capable
of overpowering creatures half their size when they get the drop on them
... Their beginnings lie far back in the Good Ole Days when the planet was
populated with the kind of colorful creatures you have to drink a quart of
Old Overcoat to see nowadays.
-- Bored of the Rings, by the staff of the Harvard Lampoon
