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Don't Underestimate an Education
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The face of the great mage of Shothoggow turned red with anger.
“You say that I’m a smug and vain idiot? After I did all this?”
A few moments ago, he wiped out half of the nearby population; the only thing with him was a snake slithering on the ground.
“What do you mean by? Take it back or things will get worse? You will think twice before calling me – the Mightiest and the Wisest – disgusting slimy snake. Go, catch some frogs. Maybe you will find a cursed princess or something, you slowworm!”
The snake turned his head towards the mage and hissed.
“Smatterer? Say who? The one who couldn’t even read? What if a slowworm isn’t a snake; it doesn’t matter. There are more important things than zoology, you redneck. A cow or a sheep, it doesn’t matter which one if it’s on the plate. Go … slither away! And look out for hedgehogs.”
Great mage laughed.
The reptile found an exposed spot below the mage’s knee.
“Ouch!”
The snake slithered away.
And it rattled its tail.
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* Terry Pratchett. Hogfather
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