The History of Gutta-Percha Willie

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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? >P? Willie answered without a moment’s hesitation –