Author(s): George MacDonald
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 116
Publisher: ALAN RODGERS BOOKS
Language: English
Date Published: 2006-09-30
Dimensions: 154.9 x 223.5 x 15.2mm
Publication City/Country: Woodlands Hills, United States
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Illustrations: black & white illustrations

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 . .