Ox

An Ox and its Carter made a living hauling freight in and around Darujhistan. The carter was an old man with a wizened face, whose lined brow sported an array of warts and moles.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 19, US SFBC p.764Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.533 The increasing number of jobs involving the transport of corpses made him feel older and gave him an irrational dislike of the ox, as if it were to blame. He chewed rustleaf, often leaving streaks of juice on his stubbled chin after spitting in the street.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.532-533 His study of the bodies he carted led to theories of biology that sounded similar to DNA. These theories were met with ridicule by those he shared them with.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.534
The ox was "too stupid to worry" and would have been content with its life but for the back-breaking labour and casual abuse.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.532 It had dark brown eyes with delicate blond lashes.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.346 The carter walked along side it with a crop twitching its flank now and again.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.686
==In Toll the Hounds==
The ox and carter were woven into many of the stories occurring in Darujhistan during the week of the Gedderone Fête. It first appeared yoked outside Corb's Womanly Charms where Uncle Doruth shopped with one of his illicit lovers.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.145 
The ox brought masonry needed for the construction at Lady Varada's estate at the same time Scorch and Leff were applying for jobs as guards with Varada's castellan, Studlock.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.346-347 
Among the corpses they collected for the City Watch were victims of Gaz, the mysterious killer haunting the city's streets and alleys.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.532-534
The ox and carter carried a load of braided leather to the Eldra Iron Mongers mine west of the city. On the side of the road they encountered Murillio whose horse had thrown a shoe. The man secured a ride to the same mine for a jangle of coins. As they neared the mine, they were passed by the lacquered carriage of the mine's co-owner, Gorlas Vidikas.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.686
After Murillio met his fate at Gorlas' rapier, the young noble ordered the body brought to the Phoenix Inn to taunt the dead man's friends. The ox and carter were hired to make the delivery.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.713-714 The carter was tired from the long night by the time he arrived at the Inn, so he tied up the cart outside and went in for a drink and breakfast. It was not long before someone noticed the body and Meese was shocked to recognise Murillio. Irilta cornered the carter and forced him to explain where the body came from.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 19, US SFBC p.763-765/786
On the last night of the Gedderone Fête, when great powers converged on the city, the ox fled in terror with its cart as the Hounds of Shadow stalked the streets.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.914-915 It finally became too weary to run in the vicinity of the Warden Barracks where Antsy and Barathol Mekhar commandeered it to carry the badly wounded Chaur to Baruk's Estate and then the Finnest House. The ox was content to return to something like its normal labour.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.919-920/926-928
The next morning the ox cart accompanied Caladan Brood through the city carrying Anomander Rake's body as citizens lined the streets to watch. Tens of thousands of silent mourners followed them to a barrow outside the walls.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.990-991/994-995 Cutter and Spite saw the ox and cart near Rake's barrow as they left Darujhistan by ship.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.999
==Notes and references==
Category:Animals
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