The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-01-25

the following well-known stanza: "
s by Mac and o 8itaA'
You'll always know .s Al
True Irishnen, they say;
Fer if they lack HGI
The o or Mac,
No Irishmen are they" 9
The names Of the principal high
land clans in Scotland are given as
follows:
M'Intosh the son of the First.
/ MDonald; the son Of Brown Eyes.
MDugall; the son of Black Eyes.
MOnnechy or Duncan; the, son Of
Brown Head. ''4 'ss'''
MGregor; the son of a Greek Man.
i MLeod; the son Of the Wounder.
!. MLean !; the son of the Lion,
MKenzie !; the son Of the Friendly
One. sf;sp 81 ssd -.
MIntyre; the son of the Carpenter.
Campbell; Crooked Mouth.
Cameron; Crooked Nose.
Stewart Hight Stay or Support.
Ap is the prefix used in Wales for
son. Llewellyn 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 ap-
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 of Wales,
heard cry of distress from some one
who had fallen into a rayine by the
roadside.
Help, master, help!" cried the
voice from the ravine. @
Help? Who are your" called out
the traveller"
| "Jenkin ap- Griffith-ap- Robin-ap- Will
liam-ap- -Rees-ap- Evan, was the reply.
LAZY fellows that We be-" said the
Englishman, spurring up his horse, ''to
lie rolling in that hole a half-a-dozen
of ye. Why, in the name of COM
mon sense don't ye help each other
out" p
We will conclude this chapter ON
names by the following story Of gen.
tleman of color, who became dissatis-
fed with his individualizing cognomen:
The other day a young African asked
us if it was "agin de law to change his
name We replied that if he had
good name he had better keep it, as a
good name was the one thing to be de-
sired in this world.
"Pse got putty far name, he said,
"w'at Fse had eber sence de war, but
it won't do for dis chile any moah."
why, what's the matter with it?"
we asked.
"Well, you see, boss, dars fool
nigger come hyar from Coillicoffee,
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 a different procog-
nem,'
Perhaps you can prevail on him to
adopt another name .,t,8
g No sab; !; / offend him foah bits an
a rahzor to call himself somethin' else
sides Geowge Washington Jones, but
the yellow fool won't do it"
Yellow, is he?" 's 8
Yes, sab; an dat's what makes me
so injurious about it. He says de
Jones was defnstest families of Firginy,
and dat he's condescended in direct
line from dem, and consequencely dar-
foah values de name NOAH exceedingly
than otherwise.
So you propose to off with the old
name and on with new?"
| Somethin like dat. I s'pose boss.
An wants to ak you de favor to seiest
some dispropriate name dat'll do for a
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" - 2
How'll Benedict Arnold do 2"
"De Arnold am tonish, for suah
but dar's too many Benny's an Dicks
around Trv oru,11or ono Lo,,-n