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The History of Gutta-Percha Willie by George Macdonald, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure

The History of Gutta-Percha Willie by George Macdonald, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure

MacDonald, George

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General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 1598181572
ISBN13: 9781598181579
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: Sep 1 2006
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

When 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 pronounced 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. . . . One evening in winter, when he had been putting coals on his grannie's fire, she told him to take a chair beside her, as she wanted a little talk with him. He obeyed her gladly. Well, Willie, she said, what would you like to be? Willie answered without a moment's hesitation . .

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