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It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs

'Can we?'

'Damned if I know I can't'

'Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say I wouldn't say, if I could'

'Can you?'

'No!'

'Ah-ha!'

It cauard, as they did gate duty at ten o'clock on an icy night Gate duty in Ankh-Morpork was not taxing It consisted h, although traffic was

They hunched in the shelter of the gate arch, sharing one daarette

'You can't turn so else,' said Corporal Nobbs The Alche it for years'

They can gen'rally turn a house into a hole in the ground,' said Sergeant Colon

That's what I' about,' said Corporal Nobbs 'Can't be done It's all to do with ele's ht? Earth, Water, Air, Fire and sunnink Well-known fact Everything's got 'eht'

He staet some warmth into them

'If it was possible to turn lead into gold, everyone'd be doing it,' he said

'Wizards could do it,' said Sergeant Colon