From: Raymond Feist
Date: 29 August 2002
Pug is a scrapy little dog.
I originally wanted to call him "Pip," because one of my favorite books as a kid was Dicken's _Great Expectations_. However, while I was working on Magician, Alan Dean Foster came out with his "Flinx and Pip" series of books, so I looked around for a name that would work with a scrappy little kid. Hence, Pug.
Best, R.E.F.
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