From:
daneedv
Date: 2001-12-05 19:07:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Sprite and Gib
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "sukieferret" <sukiecrandall@t...>
wrote:
> Wendy Winstead's early stuff would have preceded him, if
> memories from those years suffice, and I believe that they do,
> but her later ferret years should overlap his years. Therefore, it
> could fall into a time frame when either may have said it. As a
> writer of folk songs (professionally for folks like the Smothers
> Brothers) as well as physician, she was a word-smith. She also
> had her ferrets altered and spayed before sale.
OK, you got me curious, and since I have all my ferret related books
in one place, I went and checked. I could not find any reference to
the terms 'gib' or 'sprite' in either my Winstead book from 1981 or
my Chuck and Fox Morton book from 1985. Now, I did not read either
of these cover to cover tonight, but did skim all the pages, and
carefully read pages I thought most likely to use the terms.
Danee