Wednesday 1 April 2009

Daniel Ridgway Knight Hailing the Ferry

Daniel Ridgway Knight Hailing the FerryHorace Vernet The Lion HuntSir Henry Raeburn The Reverend Robert Walker SkatingJean Auguste Dominique Ingres Princesse Albert de BrogliePeter Paul Rubens The Judgment of Paris
block and no-one can move because everyone’s in someone else’s way, right?’
The Dean tried to nod. He had wondered himself about the wisdom of digging the hole at the junction of the Street of Small Gods and Broad Way, two of the busiest streets in Ankh-Morpork. It had seemed logical at the time. Even the most persistent undead ought to stay decently buried under that amount of traffic. The only problem was crossroads thieves?’
He was overjoyed. His long-term policing strategy was paying off! The Archchancellor tipped a shovelful of Ankh-Morpork loam over his boots.
‘Don’t be stupid, man,’ he snapped.’This is vitally important.’ ‘Oh, yes. That’s what they all say,’ said Sergeant Colon, not a man to be easily steered from a particular course of thought once he’d gotthat no-one had thought seriously about the difficulty of digging up a couple of main streets during the busy time of day.‘All right, all right, what’s going on here?’The crowd of spectators opened to admit the bulky figure of Sergeant Colon of the Watch. He moved through the people unstoppably, his stomach leading the way. When he saw the wizards, waist deep in a hole in the middle of the road, his huge red face brightened up.‘What’s this, then?’ he said. ‘A gang of international

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