![]() ![]() Granny reached and gave the trembling man a reassuring pat on the shoulder. There was a soft metallic noise as the spear fell out of the man’s fearful fingers. She leaned a little closer, and said, ‘I gave you your first good hiding in this valley of tears and by all the gods if you cross me now I will give you your last.’ ‘I recall I laid out your grandad and I brought you into the world.’ She glanced at the crowds, which had regathered a little way off, and turned back to the guard, whose face was already a mask of terror. The apple-seller gambit had never worked more than once in the entire history of witchcraft, as far as she knew, but it was traditional. ‘No-one must enter the castle,’ said one of the guards. ‘Pray let me past, dearie.’ The last word had knives in it. ‘I am a harmless old seller of apples,’ she said, in a voice more appropriate for the opening of hostilities in a middle-range war. She walked up to them, and fixed one of them with a look. ![]() There were two extremely apprehensive guards on duty. ‘A man could go far, knowing his rights like you do,’ said Granny. ‘And acornage, every other year, and the right to keep two-thirds of a goat on the common. ‘Dunnage, cowhage-in-ordinary, badinage, leftovers, scrommidge, clary and spunt,’ said the peasant promptly. ‘All this burning and taxing and now this. ‘It’s gone too far this time,’ said a peasant. ![]() Everyone knows a witch cannot be held against her will.’ ‘There has probably been a misunderstanding. ![]() ‘I really advise you all to return home,’ said Granny Weatherwax. ‘They say Jason Ogg’s gone to fetch his brothers,’ said a stallholder, in awe. I expect Nanny Ogg has just gone to advise the king, or something.’ ‘There’s a witch in the dungeons,’ someone whispered to Granny. She had a basket of apples under her arm. They went quiet as she strode forward, and parted to let her pass. There was already a crowd outside the castle as Granny’s broomstick wobbled uncertainly towards the ground. Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett) | Read books online free without registration and downloading Terry Pratchett « Wyrd Sisters» Subject: Comic Fantasy/Science-fiction. ![]()
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