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 parison the former appeared as nothing. He, however, examined me about many things relating to my companion, in all of which I satisfied him, save in one: I could neither tell him who my friend was, what was his name, nor of whom he was descended; and I wondered at myself how I had never once adverted to such a thing, for all the time we had been intimate.

I inquired the next day what his name was; as I said I was often at a loss for it, when talking with him. He replied, that there was no occasion for any one friend ever naming another, when their society was held in private, as ours was; for his part he had never once named me since we first met, and never intended to do so, unless by my own request. "But if you cannot converse without naming me, you may call me Gil for the present," added he; and if I think proper to take another name at any future period, it shall be with your approbation."

"Gil!" said I; "Have you no name but Gil? Or which of your names is it? Your Christian or surname?"

"O, you must have a surname too, must you!" replied he, "Very well, you may call me Gil-Mar-