She got it from her mother, who also died very old, and who could give no other account of it than that it had been in the family time out of mind." "Whence could they have got it ?" "Why, perhaps where they got their names, brother.

A gentleman, who had travelled much, once told me that he had seen the sister of it about the neck of an Indian queen." "Some of your names, Jasper, appear to be church names; your own, for example, and Ambrose, and Sylvester; perhaps you got them from the Papists, in the times of Popery; but where did you get such a name as Piramus, a name of Grecian romance?
Then some of them appear to be Slavonian; for example, Mikailia and Pakomovna.

I don't know much of Slavonian; but.

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." "What is Slavonian, brother ?" "The family name of certain nations, the principal of which is the Russian, and from which the word slave is originally derived.