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Buggy Swires
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| Name | Buggy Swires |
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| Race | gnome |
| Occupation | watchman |
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| Books | Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch |
| Cameos | Monstrous Regiment |
Likely the first gnome member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Buggy currently the first and only member of the Airborne Section. Being small enough to fit on the back of a bird has made him an excellent field agent, from delivering crucial supplies to intercepting messenger pigeons or flying surveillance missions as the watch's eye in the sky. He used to fly various birds for various tasks, a sparrowhawk for traffic duties, for example. Now, at the time of the Borogravia-Zlobenia conflict, he has a buzzard named Morag, which he bought from a Nac Mac Feegle clan for a crate of whiskey. Buggy likes being allowed to hit people legally and flying; everything looks small when he's on aerial surveillance.
A gnome called Swires also appears in The Light Fantastic. He looks and smells like somebody who lives in a mushroom and does a pretty neat newt sorbet. This is probably not the same Buggy Swires as this Swires is more timid and confined to ground level. This is perhaps a relative?
