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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 41.

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A FAMILY NAME.

A YOUNG fellow six feet tall and weighing 200 pounds not long ago applied to a Detroit merchant for a position in his store.
"What's your name?" inquired the merchant.
"Little Dickey Robinson," replied the young man promptly.
"What?" exclaimed the merchant in astonishment as he surveyed his proportions.
"Little Dickey Robinson," was the reply, this time several tones louder.
It made the merchant half angry.
"What in the world does a great big fellow like you mean by giving such a name as that?" he asked indignantly.
The young fellow's temper was admirable, and he was after a job, besides.
"I give such a name as that, sir," he said, "because that is my name, and if you've got a man in this house that dares to make fun of that name, trot him out."
The merchant began to smooth him down and asked for an explanation.
"It's this way," he said quite good naturedly, "my mother's maiden name was Little, my father's name was Robinson, and his mother's maiden name was Dickey. They wanted me to have the family names, and so I'm Little Dickey Robinson."
The explanation was eminently satisfactory; so was the young man, and he's going to work soon.—Detroit Free Press.