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Show MIXUP THAT WAS AMUSINS Humorous Nova Scotian Unintentiorw ally Very Gravely Misled Serious-Minded Serious-Minded Glasgow Newspaper. R. M. MacGregor told the following story ax a luncheon of the Scottish curlers In New Glasgow: A NeT Glasgow shipping firm was having built a steamship on the Clyde and gave it the name of MIcmac. The odoV ity of the name aroused considerable curiosity. The Nova Scotian captain was asked the derivation of the name. Good-naturedly the captain replied) that "311c" was for the Irish and) "Mac" for the Scottish. Next day tha captain was astonished to find this explanation of the name featured la the Herald. He sent for the reporter and explained that "3Iicmac" was the name of a tribe of Indians In Nova Scotia. To his further astonishment the following day the Herald carried) a correction, reading as follows: "We were slightly incorrect in giving giv-ing the derivation of the name '3Iie mac' in yesterday's Issue. We now learn that the ship Is called Sliema after a tribe of wild Indians in Nova Scotia, who are half Irish and hall Scotch." |