But Edward d'Eath didn't cry, for three reasons. And a burial, on a spring morning, with mist on the ground so thick that it poured into the grave and the coffin was lowered into cloud.Ī small greyish mongrel, host to so many assorted doggy diseases that it was surrounded by a cloud of dust, watched impassively from the mound of earth. It began, as many things do, with a death. '-is more suited in his current Roll, and I have not been in the Watch long enough. His big honest forehead wrinkled with effort as he tried to think of something positive to say about Corporal Nobbs. We do not know who will be the new Captain, Sgt Colon says he will Resign if it's him, Cpl Nobbs-'Ĭarrot stared out of the window again. We are clubbing together to get him a Surprise Present, I thought one of those new Watches that don't need demons to make them go and we could inscribe on the back something like “A Watch from, your Old Freinds in the Watch”, this is a pune or Play on Words. Also, Captain Vimes of who I have often written to you of is, leaving the Watch to get married and Become a Fine Gentleman and, I'm sure we wish him All the Best, he taught me All I Know apart, from the things I taught myself. '-which I do not Fulley understand but must have something to do with the dwarf Grabpot Thundergust's Cosmetic Factory. And a new copper badge! It is a Great responsibility!! This is all because we have got new recruits because the Patrician who, as I have formerly vouchsafed is the ruler of the city, has agreed the Watch must reflect the ethnic makeup of the City-'Ĭarrot paused for a moment and stared out of the small dusty bedroom window at the early evening sunlight sidling across the river.
'Well here is another fine Turnup for the Books, for I have been made Corporal!! It means another Five Dollars a month plus also I have a new jerkin with, two stripes upon it as well. Corporal Carrot, Ankh-Morpork City Guard (Night Watch), sat down in his nightshirt, took up his pencil, sucked the end for a moment, and then wrote:
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