Jan 8
"That's the last time that bloody landlord gives any lip to a wizard," said Albert with smug satisfaction. "It seems I turn my back for a few hundred years and suddenly people in this town are encouraged to think they can talk back to wizards, eh?"
One of the senior wizards mumbled something.
"What was that? Speak up, man!"
"As the bursar of this university I must say that we've always encouraged a good neighbor policy with respect to the community," mumbled the wizard, trying to avoid Albert's gimlet stare. [...]
Albert let his mouth drop open. "Why?" he said.
"Well, er, a sense of civic duty, we feel it's vitally important that we show an examp--arrgh!"
Terry Pratchett, Mort
