Gutta-Percha Willie
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George MacDonald. Gutta-Percha Willie
THE HISTORY OF GUTTA-PERCHA WILLIE
CHAPTER I. WHO HE WAS AND WHERE HE WAS
CHAPTER II. WILLIE'S EDUCATION
CHAPTER III. HE IS TURNED INTO SOMETHING HE NEVER WAS BEFORE
CHAPTER IV. HE SERVES AN APPRENTICESHIP
CHAPTER V. HE GOES TO LEARN A TRADE
CHAPTER VI. HOW WILLIE LEARNED TO READ BEFORE HE KNEW HIS LETTERS
CHAPTER VII. SOME THINGS THAT CAME OF WILLIE'S GOING TO SCHOOL
CHAPTER VIII. WILLIE DIGS AND FINDS WHAT HE DID NOT EXPECT
CHAPTER IX. A MARVEL
CHAPTER X. A NEW ALARUM
CHAPTER XI. SOME OF THE SIGHTS WILLIE SAW
CHAPTER XII. A NEW SCHEME
CHAPTER XIII. WILLIE'S NEST IN THE RUINS
CHAPTER XIV. WILLIE'S GRANDMOTHER
CHAPTER XV. HYDRAULICS
CHAPTER XVI. HECTOR HINTS AT A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XVII. HOW WILLIE WENT ON
CHAPTER XVIII. WILLIE'S TALK WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER
CHAPTER XVIX. A TALK WITH Mr SHEPHERD
CHAPTER XX. HOW WILLIE DID HIS BEST TO MAKE A BIRD OF AGNES
CHAPTER XXI. HOW AGNES LIKED BEING A BIRD
CHAPTER XXII. WILLIE'S PLANS BUD
CHAPTER XXIII. WILLIE'S PLANS BLOSSOM
CHAPTER XXIV. WILLIE'S PLANS BEAR FRUIT
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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, dignified in the course of time into Macmichael. It was his own father, however, who gave him the name of Gutta-Percha Willie, the reason of which will also show itself by and by.
Mr Macmichael was a country doctor, living in a small village in a thinly-peopled country; the first result of which was that he had very hard work, for he had often to ride many miles to see a patient, and that not unfrequently in the middle of the night; and the second that, for this hard work, he had very little pay, for a thinly-peopled country is generally a poor country, and those who live in it are poor also, and cannot spend much even upon their health. But the doctor not only preferred a country life, although he would have been glad to have richer patients, and within less distances of each other, but he would say to any one who expressed surprise that, with his reputation, he should remain where he was—"What's to become of my little flock if I go away, for there are very few doctors of my experience who would feel inclined to come and undertake my work. I know every man, woman, and child in the whole country-side, and that makes all the difference." You see, therefore, that he was a good kind-hearted man, and loved his work, for the sake of those whom he helped by it, better than the money he received for it.
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"If everybody works that is good and old enough, then I think God must work," answered Willie. "But I will ask my papa. Am I old enough?"
"Well, you're not old enough to do much, but you might do something."
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