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supernatural plagues, but the best the Old Kingdom had been able to achieve in the last hundred years was the Plague of Frog*. (*It was quite a big frog, however, and got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.)
That evening, when they were well outside the delta of the Djel and heading across the Circle Sea to Ankh-Morpork, Teppic remembered the bag and examined its contents. With love, but also with his normal problem - which in Teppic's case consisted of a broad expanse of cobblestones some eighty feet away and closing - in the hope that it will go away.
The trouble is that it soon will.
Whatever the reason, Teppic was suddenly acutely aware approach to things, his father had presented him with a cork, half a tin of saddlesoap, a small bronze coin of uncertain denomination, and an extremely elderly sardine. It is a well-known fact that when one is about to die the senses immediately become excruciatingly sharp and it has always been believed that this is to enable their owner to detect any possible exit from his predicament other than the obvious one. This is not true. The phenomenon is a classical example of displacement activity. The senses are desperately concentrating on anything apart from the immediate
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