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Like his father before him he holds the office of Lancre blacksmith, which brings with it the obligation to shoe anything, and the concomitant ability to shoe anything: he has shod an ant, a unicorn, and ( at regular intervals and with specially reserved metal ) Death's horse Binky.
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