Mark Spain Reflection

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Pseudopolis, sir.'
'But Pseudopolis always lost its wars!'
'Ah . . . well . . .'
'Who did you sell the weapons to?'
'That's a 'You sure, Nobby?' said Carrot. 'There's nothing you want to leave?'
'It's so hard to choose, sir.'
Detritus was hanging on to his huge bowslander, that is! They just used to spend a lot of time away for polishing and sharpening.''Nobby, this is Carrot talking to you. How much time, approximately?''Approximately? Oh. About a hundred per cent, if we're talking approximately, sir.''Nobby?''Sir?''You don't have to call me sir.''Yessir.'In the end, Cuddy remained faithful to his axe, but added a couple more as an afterthought; Sergeant Colon chose a pike because the thing about a pike, the important thing, was that everything happened at the other end of it, i.e., a long way off; Lance-Constable Angua selected, without much enthusiasm, a short sword, and Corporal Nobbs——Corporal Nobbs was a kind of mechanical porcu- pine of blades, bows, points and knobbly things on the end of chains.