The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-11
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mentioned as examples. The Polish
addition for son is ski or sky, as be-
trowski, the son of Peter.
The Scotch use Mac before the name
to express the idea of son Of, and the
Irish use Mac and o. Thomas ODon-
nell is literally Thomas of Donnell,
signifying either Thomass genealogy,
or the place from which he halls. In
allusion to the frequent appearance of
o and Mac in Irish names, we have
the following well-known stanza:
- "By Mac and 20
| You'll always know
True Irishmen, they say;
+ For if they lack
The o or Mae,
| No Irishmen are they"
The names of the principal high
7 land clans in Scotland are given as
follows : a-es7,
] :. .M'Intosh the son of the First.
M'Donald; the son of Brown Eyes.
M'Dugall; the son of Black Eyes.
M'Onnechy or Duncan; the sson of
/ Brown Head. s@~n
= MGsegor the son of Greek Man.
/ M'Leod; the son of the Wounder.
MLean the son of the Lion.
M'Kenzie the son of the Friendly
One.
M'Intyre the son of the Carpenter.
/ 81 Campbell; Crooked Mouth.
Cameron Crooked Nose.
Stewart; Hight Stay or Support.
Ap is. the prefix used in Wales for
son. Elewellyn ap Howell is the name
. Of .Llewellyn the son of Howell. As
/ Llewellyn wanders in England his
name is shortened into Powell. John
| ap-Richard in the same way becomes
John Prichard.
| ;. But while Welshmen stay at home
they keep their names unchanged, and
sometimes they add to them. Thus
Evans son is named Richard APP
Evan his son is John ap-Richard-ap-
Evan and so on.
|. Apropos of Welsh names, the fol-
lowing humorous anecdote is told:
!, An. Englishman riding one dark
night among the mountains ct Wales,
heard a cry of distress from some one
who had fallen into ravine by the
roadside.
- (" Help, master, help" cried the
voice from the ravine.
-" Help? Who are your" called out
the traveller" rS.-l -..
s'Jenkin ap-G riffith-ap- RobiH-ap-Wll
liam;ap-R ees-ap-Evan," was the; reply.
>"Lazy fellows that we be-" said the
.Englishman, squirting up his horse, ''to
/ lie-fel4ing in that hole a hafa-dozen
.ef yes7 Why, in the name of COM
l,soaf sense don't We help each other
oukp,s
-,We.win conclude this chapter. on
namesssy the following story OF a gen.
'tlemaa0f color, who became dissatis-
fed, Mieh his individualizing cognomen:
-; Ehe4ther day young African asked
us if itswas' ''agin de law" to change his
name. Nve replied that if he had
good name he had better keep it, as
good name was the one thing to be de-
sired in this world.
=. Use, got putty far name" he id,
9. at lee had eber sence de war. but
itwo1i'tzdo for dis chile any noah"
,.e.sS NJ what's the matter with it,"
we asked.
sx WeIkyou see, boss, darr'ss a fool
niassr come hyar from CniHcoffee,
and he's a buzzin' around with my
name, an no two niggers can circum-
gate in de same town onless one or de |
uder OBJ 'em hab different procog-
men,"
"Rehaps-yon can prevail lsa!ainl to
adopNab bother name : -
:Ao2 ah ! offend him foah bits air'
Il rahzor to call himself somethin' else
sides Geowge Washington jones' but
the yellow fool won't do it."
"a Yellow, is he?"
"Yes, sab an dat's what makes me
so injurious about it. He says de /
Jones' was de flstest families of Firginy,
and 4at he's condescended il{ a direct.
line Eonsdem, and conseq uehcelyii aars
foah values de name noah eXceedf&y'|
than Otkerwise. -,
$50 you propose to off with thd -old
name and on with new" 's.''sff !
=" Somethin like dat [ s'pose boss
An l wants to ak you de favor to sejest-
some dispropriates name dat'll de for AL
Guild pusson OBJ standin'. I don't
soshate wild de common low-class Mig:
gers, an name out O dere uncompre-
hension-wat they can't steal, you
know"
"How'll Benedict Arnold do ?"
ode Arnold am tonish, for suah,
but dar's too many Benny's an Dicks
Try annudder one, boss"
Well Algernon Sartoris-
that?"
OATS superlagent Agency
man Sartoris Arnold-dat'H do for
some OBJ de name. Please reach for
one, sab"
"Why that's name enough. How
much do you want for goodness sake "
Boss, you must member dat Use
leekin in de church, an 'prietor oh a
house an lot." zzg. ..z-. ..- 4
ooh! yes welIIet's. see-Bill
A lien ?" ~ ~
"Dat's too common" ,
Abraham Lincoln ~"
"Too ordinary, sab. Git up higher" !
"Phil. Sheridan ?"
Higher yet, sab, if you please"
own. Tccumseh Shcr-"
"Stop sah-dat's nuff-ncedn't feel ,.
10 furder. Wilyum Cherkumsey- t
lat sounds ike ole Kaintuck-Wilyum a
Jherkumsey Algerneyman Sartoris
Arnold. Yes sab, dat'll do-no low i
lass niger can git inside o dat. '
louise de solum witness, boss, dat dat's !
ny name from hencefo'th on to all \
'recedin' time, Use just obliged to you n
ah." t
As he walked majestically away. re- a
eating the name to himself, he was
he proudest niger to be seen. And
ct Shakespeare says there's moth t.
1g in Il name. v
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