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" scattered." They will scatter more. Death is taking off the old-timers 

 and it is doubtful if their offspring are sufficiently inte ested in the old 

 memories and traditions to keep them alive. The very name " Winkel " 

 has been altered. It is now " Winkle." It is " Winkle " even in the 

 ('otherwise) authoritative pages of the Post Office Guide. It will puzzle the 

 historian of a hundred years hence to account for this " Winkle." 

 Perhaps if one walks as a "Jumbi" on the old mudflat, at that distant 

 day, he maj' be amused to read in the historian's " Topography of New 

 Amsterdam " this erudite little note : — 



Winkle Village. The name is obscure. Possibly has some con- 

 nection with periwinkle : Fulgar canaliculata. Perhaps there is some 

 humorous association here with " Mr. Winkle," a character as the 

 book-hunter will remember, in a classic of our great-grandfathers 

 "The Pickwick Papers." " Mr. Alfred Jingle " went to Demerara. 



