THE HISTORY OF
GUTTA-PERCHA WILLIE.

CHAPTER 1.
WHO HE WAS AND WHERE HE WAS,

HEN he had been at school for about three

weeks, the boys called him Six-fingered- |

Jack; but his real name was Willie, for his father“
and mother gave it him—not William, but Willie,
after a brother of his father, who died young, and
had always been called Willie. His name in full
was Willie Macmichael. It was generally’ pro-
nounced Macmickle, which was, by a learned
anthropologist, for certain reasons about to appear
in this history, supposed to have been the original
form of the name, dignified in the course of time
into Macmichael. It was his own father, however,
who gave him the name of Gutta-Percha: Willie,
the reason of which will also show itself by and by.