When What Who How Where Why Eldest/Book 2005/08/23 Cobbler Loring/ Christopher Paolini «"Barges?" said the cobbler. "Barges?" We don't want no stinking barges!""» - Page 413, Knopf Hardcover edition He is saying he doesn't want to get on the barges because then he and the people of his village will be shipped like livestock, and they want comfortable boarding but cannot afford it. (So says Ivy, who also provided the scan -- thanks! Also reported by Tan, Larry, and Thomas)