Mort

Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
    T HE D ISCWORLD ® S ERIES :
    Going Postal • Monstrous Regiment • Night Watch
    The Last Hero • The Truth • Thief of Time
    The Fifth Elephant • Carpe Jugulum
    The Last Continent • Jingo
    Hogfather • Feet of Clay • Maskerade
    Interesting Times • Soul Music • Men at Arms
    Lords and Ladies • Small Gods
    Witches Abroad • Reaper Man
    Moving Pictures • Eric (with Josh Kirby)
    Guards! Guards! • Pyramids
    Wyrd Sisters • Sourcery • Mort • Equal Rites
    The Light Fantastic • The Color of Magic
    Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
    The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Pratchett Portfolio (with Paul Kidby)

Copyright
    This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    MORT . Copyright © 1987 by Terry Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2007 ISBN: 9780061803888
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† The speech has been passed on to later generations in an epic poem commissioned by his son, who wasn’t born in a saddle and could eat with a knife and fork. It began:
“See yonder the stolid foemen slumber
Fat with stolen gold, corrupt of mind.
Let the spears of your wrath be as the steppe fire on a
windy day in the dry season,
Let your honest blade thrust like the horns of
a five-year old yok with severe toothache….”
And went on for three hours. Reality, which can’t usually afford to pay poets, records that in fact the entire speech ran:
“Lads, most of them are still in bed, we should go through them like kzak fruit through a short grandmother, and I for one have had it right up to here with yurts, okay?”