Word: coatimundi
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Things are winding to a close. Out of the bottom of the barrel comes a coatimundi, looking like a fox that has attended the Harvard Business School. Guinea pigs: Hale starts the bidding at 25? and, working the crowd expertly, talks the price up to $1.50 a head. Sold to Randy Horstman, 12, of Metropolis, Ill., who has bought heavily in gerbils some minutes before. Now someone stretches up and says something to Hale, high in his red-painted auctioneer's pulpit, and Hale looks unsure whether to giggle or break down crying, and he clicks on the microphone...
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