We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation
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We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.