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 namein full was Willie Macmichael. It was generally pronounced Macmickle, which was, by alearned anthropologist, for certain reasons about to appear in this history, supposed tohave been the original form of the name, dignified in the course of time into Macmichael. Itwas his own father, however, who gave him the name of Gutta-Percha Willie, the reason ofwhich will also show itself by and by