CHAPTER III.
MISS MELVILLE'S VISITOR As will be readily supposed, Gypsy's name was not her original one; though it might have been, for there have been actual Billys and Sallys, who began and ended Billys and Sallys only.
Gypsy's real name was an uncouth one--Jemima.

It was partly for this reason, partly for its singular appropriateness, that her nickname had entirely transplanted the lawful and ugly one.
This subject of nicknames is a curiosity.

All rules of euphony, fitness, and common sense, that apply to other things, are utterly at fault here.

A baby who cannot talk plainly, dubs himself "Tuty," or "Dess," or "Pet," or "Honey," and forthwith becomes Tuty, Dess, Pet, or Honey, the rest of his mortal life.

All the particularly cross and disagreeable girls are Birdies and Sunbeams.