HIS LAST NAME.
’What is your last name?’ inquired a teacher of a new scholar. * Peter, ma’am,’ replied the small boy. * Peter!’ echoed the teacher. • What is your other name ?’ * Fairbanks,’ responded the boy. * Then Fairbanks is your last name of course,’ said the teacher, eyeing the round-eyed, vacant-faced Peter with considerable severity. * No’m,’ replied the child, respectfully. *My name was Fairbanks when I was born, but mother says they didn’t name me “ Peter ” for ’most six months.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XX, 16 November 1895, Page 631
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78HIS LAST NAME. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XX, 16 November 1895, Page 631
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