The Wee Free Men

Author
    TERRY PRATCHETT’s novels have sold more than thirty-two million copies and have inspired a devoted worldwide following. In addition to his best-selling books about Discworld, Mr. Pratchett has also written several books for young readers, including the Bromeliad trilogy: TRUCKERS, DIGGERS, and WINGS; and the Johnny Maxwell trilogy: ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND, JOHNNY AND THE DEAD, and JOHNNY AND THE BOMB. Mr. Pratchett was awarded Britain’s highest honor for a children’s novel, the Carnegie Medal, for THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS.
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ALSO BY TERRY PRATCHETT
    The Carpet People
    The Dark Side of the Sun
    Strata
    THE BROMELIAD TRILOGY:
Truckers
    Diggers
    Wings
    THE JOHNNY MAXWELL TRILOGY:
    Only You Can Save Mankind
    Johnny and the Dead
    Johnny and the Bomb
    The Unadulterated Cat ( with Gray Jolliffe )
    Good Omens ( with Neil Gaiman )
    The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
    THE DISCWORLD SERIES
    The Color of Magic
    The Light Fantastic
    Equal Rites
    Mort
    Sourcery
    Wyrd Sisters
    Pyramids
    Guards! Guards!
    Eric
    Moving Pictures
    Reaper Man
    Witches Abroad
    Small Gods
    Lords and Ladies
    Men at Arms
    Soul Music
    Feet of Clay
    Interesting Times
    Maskerade
    Hogfather
    Jingo
    The Last Continent
    Carpe Jugulum
    The Fifth Elephant
    The Truth
    Thief of Time
    Night Watch
    Mort: A Discworld Big Comic
( with Graham Higgins )

    The Streets of Ankh-Morpork
( with Stephen Briggs )

    The Discworld Companion
( with Stephen Briggs )

    The Discworld Mapp
( with Stephen Briggs )

    The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable
( illustrated by Paul Kidby )

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    THE WEE FREE MEN. Copyright © 2003 by Terry Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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*People say things like “listen to your heart,” but witches learn to listen to other things too. It’s amazing what your kidneys can tell you.

**Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

*Tiffany had read lots of words in the dictionary that she’d never heard spoken, so she had to guess at how they were pronounced.

*No words could describe what a Feegle in a kilt looks like upside down, so they won’t try.

*Probably about eleven inches across. Tiffany didn’t measure them this time.