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I think this clears up any dispute about the source of the pseudonym (which often appeared on book jackets alongside his true name), and I pause to note that Lucien Wattleskeat is a poor register of Saki’s generally brilliant and somewhat Wildean ability to devise memorable names.
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I think this clears up any dispute about the source of the pseudonym (which often appeared on book jackets alongside his true name), and I pause to note that Lucien Wattleskeat is a poor register of Saki’s generally brilliant and somewhat Wildean ability to devise memorable names.
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About two the next morning, the yawl, which had been left upon the shoal, returned, with three turtles and a large skeat.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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