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Hello, what's your dog called?

Jill Wilson asked me one day on our way back from primary school.

I was only six or seven at the time, but Mother had already decided that Jill and I were a good thing

because her father ran the expensive wine shop next to the Corona cinema.

He's called Get in your box I said. That's a funny name for a dog, said Jill they're supposed to be called Rover or Fido

or Buster.

Actually, I'd never thought about it before that moment.

I'd simply assume that Get in your box was a name like Asterix or

those other Gauls like Thorididivix.

So when I got home I asked my mother

how our dog got his name.

It isn't his name, she told me sharply.

His proper name is Scamp.

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