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uauieti Avhich tlie founders wished to give them, and they have generally 

 l^een bestowed upon them in an opprobrious sense. For instance such 

 terms as Quaker, Methodist, Eanter, and Shaker, or Whig, Tory, or 

 Radical — and thus it has been with hundreds of our modern Surnames. 

 One man was distinguished from his fellows by some striking physical or 

 external peculiarity, such as the colour of his hair, his stature, shape of 

 body or limb, his prowess, age or condition. Another was known by some 

 mental or moral peculiarity or endowment. Thus we find in our director- 

 ies the namas Long, Short, Longman, Little, Big, Grant {i.e. Grand, Great) 

 High, Lowe, Greathead, Whitehead, Cruikshank, Sheepshank, Armstrong, 

 Strongitharm, Strong, Lcggc, Foote, Swift, Slow, Sly, and Golightly. 

 Nearly all the colours are represented, Black, White, Gray, Brown, Dun, 

 Scarlet, Red (Reed), Blond, Yellow, and Fallows, i.e. the pale yellow colour 

 of our fallow fields, and also the colour of the fallow-deer ; then we have 

 Whitelock, Blacklock, Blackman, Whitman, Redman. So of the mental or 

 moral peculiarities, thus there occur Wiseman, Goodfellow, Merry, Gay, 

 Blythe, Joyce, Makepeace, Trueman, Hardy, Smart, Quick, Sharp, Freake 

 {i.e. fresh), Bold, Doughty, Champion, Careless, Jolly, Merryweather; Play- 

 fair is Playfellow — from old English f^re a fellow or Comrade, Penny- 

 father was an opprobrious term for miser. The insect world, the beast 

 world, the fish-world and the bird-wcrld are all represented in our 

 directories, and the same may be said of the vegetable world, but I must 

 close here. If I have succeeded in awakening among you an interest in a 

 subject usually considered dry and uninviting but which in reality throws 

 a good deal of light upon the social customs, modes of thought, manners 

 and occupations of our forefathers obtainable from no other source, the 

 chief object I had in view in setting out is attained. 



