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'Oh, well, ic,' said Nobby dismissively

A large cart ru Colon as it wobbled through one of the puddles that were such a feature of Ankh-Morpork's highways

'Bloody dwarfs,' he said, as it continued on into the city But he didn't say it too loudly

There were a lot of the that cart,' said Corporal Nobbs reflectively It lurched slowly round a corner and was lost to view

'Prob'ly all that gold,' said Colon

'Hah Yeah That'd be it, then'

And the rumour came to the ears of William de Worde, and in a sense it stopped there, because he dutifully wrote it down

It was his job Lady Margolotta of Uberwald sent hier Duchess of Quir Verence of Lancre, and a few other Rah in his case the pays, twice a year

All in all, he considered, he was on to a good thing All he had to do rite one letter very carefully, trace it backwards on to a piece of boxwood provided for hi Artificers, and then pay Mr Cripslock twenty dollars to carefully remove the wood that wasn't letters and make five impressions on sheets of paper

Of course, it had to be done thoughtfully, with spaces left after To my Noble Client the', and so on, which he had to fill in later, but even deducting expenses it still left him the best part of thirty dollars for little more than one day's work a month

A young man without too many responsibilities could live modestly in Ankh-Morpork on thirty or forty dollars a h it was possible to live on figs you soon wished you didn't

And there were always additional sums to be picked up here and there The world of letters was a closed boo-- mysterious papery object to many of Ankh-Morpork's citizens, but if they ever did need to cos to paper quite a few of then 'Willias Written Down'

Dwarfs, for exa to seek work in the city, and the first thing they did was send a letter ho This was such a predictable occurrence, even if the dwarf in question was so far down on his luck that he'd been forced to eat his helmet, that William had Mr Cripslock produce several dozen stock letters which needed only a few spaces filled in to be perfectly acceptable

Fond dwarf parents all over thelike this:

Dear [Mume & Dad],