"What is your name?"
The boy answered quietly, "Number 44, New Series 864,962."
Everybody's eyes came open in a stare. Of course. The master thought perhaps he hadn't heard aright; so he asked again, and the boy answered the same as before, "Number 44, New Series 864,962."
"What a hell of a name!" ejaculated Hans Katzenyammer, piously.
...the best short story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3186
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