"Why do you wish to change your name?" the teacher asked.
"I want to be an American. I live in America now. I no longer want to be a Dago."
"What American name would you like to have?"
"I have it here," he said, handing the teacher a dirty scrap of paper on which was written—Patrick Dennis McCarty.
A shy young man once said to a young lady: "I wish dear, that we were on such terms of intimacy that you would not mind calling me by my first name."
"Oh," she replied, "your second name is good enough for me."
An American travelling in Europe engaged a courier. Arriving at an inn in Austria, the man asked his servant to enter his name in accordance with the police regulations of that country. Some time after, the man asked the servant if he had complied with his orders.
"Yes, sir," was the reply.