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Rh sulphur-coloured son of a door mat, do you know what I'm going to call you?"

I thought of "Lovey," and I whined dolefully.

"I'm going to call you 'Pete, says my master; and if I'd had five tails I couldn't have done enough wagging to do justice to the occasion.