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Nobbs, Corporal C. W. St J. (Cecil Wormsborough St John)
A corporal in the Ankh-Morpork Nigth Watch, generally known as Nobby. A 4-foot-tall, pigeon-chested, bandy-legged man, with the muscle tone of an elastic band and a certain resemblance to a chimpanzee.
Nobby is actually smaller than many dwarfs and carries at all times a tattered affidavit attesting
to his species, and possibly his genus as well. He is the son of Sconner and Maisie Nobbs of Old
Cobblers, where he was brough up in a cellar, and he is either their youngest or their only child,
since it is beyond belief than any parent could look into the cradle containing the young Nobby and
still be prepared to have another go. He is the grandson of Slope Nobbes, who was possibly
the illegitimate son of Edward St John de Nobbes, Earl of Ankh, although the link is suspect.
He is rumoured to have terrible personal habits, although these are probably no more than a penchant
for petty theft (usually from people too unconscious or, for preference, too dead to argue), an ability to do tricks with his facial boil, and a liking for folk dancing. Men like Nobby can be
found in any armed force. Although their graps of the minutiae of the Regulations is usually
encyclopaedic, the take good care never to be promoted beyond, perhaps Corporal. He smokes
incessantly, but the weird thing is that any cigarette smoked by Nobby becomes a dog-end almost
instantly and remains dog-end indefinitely or until lodgeg behind his ear, which is a sort of
nicotine Elephants' Graveyard. Nobby's normal method of locomotion is a species of sidle; in times of danger he has a way of propelling himself from place to place without apparently moving through the intervening space. And he tends to speak out of the corner of his mouth. In fact there is is something altogether very cornery about Corporal Nobbs. Nobby is known to have served as a quartermaster in the army of Duke of Pseudopolis. There are rumours the he had join the Watch after items missing from the stores were found in his kit. Since, the items were entirety of the store inventory, Nobby's kit at the times consisted of two warehouses. He lives in the New Watch House in Pseudopolis Yard, Ankh-Morpork, moving from room to room as he fills them up. |
