[Phil the Fiddler by Horatio Alger Jr.]@TWC D-Link bookPhil the Fiddler CHAPTER XXII 10/12
He sent him after me to bring me back." "And what is your name? Is it Peter, like his ?" "No; my name is Filippo." "It's a quare name." "American boys call me Phil." "That's better.
It's a Christian name, and the other isn't.
Before I married my man I lived five years at Mrs.Robertson's, and she had a boy they called Phil.
His whole name was Philip." "That's my name in English." "Then why don't you call it so, instead of Philip-O? What good is the O, anyhow? In my country they put the O before the name, instead of to the tail-end of it.
My mother was an O'Connor.
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