Guards! Guards! Guild Members
As the captain of the night watch, Vimes can sit with civic leaders at official events. However, due to the current status of the night watch, this means he’s sitting in the back with lesser guild members, right between the head begger and the head teacher.
I think this is the first example of Pratchett’s running gag of the head begger having to beg things equal to their status.
“You couldn’t by any chance spare–“ he paused, calculating a sum in concordance with his station- “about three hundred dollars for a twelve-course civic banquet, could you?“
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April 8, 2022
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