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From: dsn@rochester.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Name the ferret!!
Message-ID: <12162@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 09:37:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 09:37:07 1985
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In article <3850029@csd2.UUCP>, dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky) writes:
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>> I just got a ferret, and I need a name for him.
>
>I seem to remember a story by someone called Saki or Sake
>or something that scared the s*** out of me as a kid. It
>was about a boy and his pet ferret. If anyone can remember
>the name of this story, this might supply an appropriate name
>for your beast.

The author was Saki (a pseudonym for H. H. Munro), and the name of the ferret
(if I remember correctly) was Sredni Vashtar.