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'Following the trail'

'What for? He won't thank you, you know'

'Who won't?'

'Your young ua stopped so suddenly that Gaspode ran into her

'Youht? It's all in the nose, right? Smell can't lie Pheremonies It's the ole sexual alchehts!'

'Aha!'

'What do youwith it, anyway--'

'There isn't any it to be wrong!'

'Right, right Not that it would be,' said Gaspode, adding hurriedly, 'even if there was Everyone likes Corporal Carrot'

'They do, don't they,' said Angua, her hackles settling down 'He's verylikeable'

'Even Big Fido only bit his hand when Carrot tried to pat hi Fido?'

'Chief Barker of the Dog Guild'

'Dogs have got a Guild? Dogs? Pull one of the other ones, it's got bells on--'

'No, straight up Scavenging rights, sunbathing spots, night-ti rotasthe whole bone of rubber'

'Dog Guild,' snarled Angua sarcastically 'Oh, yeah'

'Chase a rat up a pipe in the wrong street and call et into big trouble There's big trouble for a dog in this toho ain't a Guild member It's lucky for you,' said Gaspode, 'that youin the Guild, yes?'

'Ain't a ly

'How come you survive, then?'

'I can think on ot the Power'

'What power?'

'Never youFidohe's a friend o'you doesn't sound very friendly'

'Yeah? LastFido, they only ever found his belt buckle'

'Yes?'

'And that was in a tree'

'Where are we?'

'Not even a tree near here What?'

Gaspode sniffed the air His nose could read the city in a way reminiscent of Captain Vimes' educated soles

'Junction of Scoone Avenue and Prouts,' he said

'Trail's dying out It's ua sniffed around for a while Someone had come up here, but too many people had crossed the trail The sharp sestion in the welter of conflicting scents

She are of an overwhel soap She'd noticed it before, but only as a woman and only as a faint whiff As a quadruped, it see up the road, looking thoughtful He wasn't looking where he was going, however, but he didn't need to People stood aside for Corporal Carrot

It was the first tirief How did people not notice it? He walked through the city like a tiger through tall grass, or a hubland bear across the snoearing the landscape like a skin--

Gaspode glanced sideways Angua was sitting on her haunches, staring

'Yer tongue's hanging out,' he said

'What?So? So what? That's natural I''

'Har, har'

Carrot noticed the,' he said

'Woof, woof,' said Gaspode, his traitor tail wagging

'I see you've got a lady friend, anyway,' said Carrot, patting hi his hand on his tunic

'And, my word, what a splendid bitch,' he said 'A Raue friendly way 'Oh, well,' he said 'This isn't getting any work done, is it?'

'Woof, whine, give the doggy a biscuit,' said Gaspode

Carrot stood up and patted his pockets 'I think I've got a piece of biscuit here – well, I could believe you understand every word I say'

Gaspode begged, and caught the biscuit easily

'Woof, woof, fawn, fawn,' he said