They were engaged to be married, and called each other by their first names, Tom and Fanny, and he was telliog her how. he had always liked the name of Fanny, and how it sounded like music in his ears. • I like the name so well,' he added, as » Port of clincher to the argument, • that when sister Clara asked me to name her pet terrier, I at once called it Fanny, after you, dearest/ 'I don't think that was very nice, said the fair one, edging from him;' how would you like to nave a dog named after you ?' ' Why, that isn^t any. thing, answered Tom, «Hnly; half the cats in the country are named after me!' They don t speak now. ;;
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4469, 2 May 1883, Page 2
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