He finishes the last of his gardening, and looks up to find Ori writing (or something-ing) furiously in his little book, and Merry is terribly curious to see what it is.

He's very quiet about it, using his little hobbit feet to sneak up until he's half-leaning over Ori's shoulder.

"What are you doing?"

And, yeah, so he does also want to startle him a bit