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I was even congratulating myself that I was really quite a genealogist when, the other day, I met the REAL THING. Heavens, Ned, that man had fourteen thousand four hundred and seventy- two dates at his tongue's end, and he said them all over to me. I met him one morning in a cemetery. I was hunting for a certain stone and I asked him a question. Heavens!
"Well, you said you'd had it, and had is the past tense, so " Jack's voice trailed off uncertainly, and Ozma, seeing he was embarrassed, begged the Professor to explain. In other words, I am to be the Great, Grand Genealogist of Oz!" "Whatever that is," the Scarecrow whispered in Dorothy's ear.
The sultan now commanded all his attendants to retire, and when they were alone, the genealogist advanced and said, "Mighty prince, thou art illegitimate, and the son of an adulteress." As soon as the sultan heard this, his colour changed, he turned pale, and fainted away.
He grew up in Siberia, and was drafted into a Cossack regiment. And at last the race was extinct; for no one knew. No one, except the recording angel, who is a bit of a genealogist, I guess. Sins of the fathers, you know. Somebody must keep account of 'em." The dessert was on the table now; for the story had taken longer in the telling than the reading of it would require.
He was interested in the history of geometry, and also in the glory of France, and a clever genealogist saw his opportunity. He produced letters from which it appeared that some of Newton's discoveries had been anticipated by Frenchmen who had been robbed of their due fame.
In proof of this fact, the distinguished Acadian genealogist, Placid P. Gaudet, has shown that among the Acadians residing at the Islands of St. Castin, widow of the only son of Louis d'Amours, then 71 year of age, who resided with her son Joseph d'Amours, deChauffour, and his family. Joseph d'Amours was at that time 49 years of age, and his wife, Genevieve Roy, 44 years of age.
I simply called in for a "crack," as you say up here, and to congratulate you on succeeding. 'A crack! echoed his host surlily. 'What about? 'Oh, about our family and yourself, returned the other caressingly. 'I am something of a genealogist, love family histories and dote on skeletons in the cupboard.
Then he is, to a certain extent, the oracle of the district through which he travels their genealogist, their newsman, their master of the revels, their doctor at a pinch, or their divine; I promise you he has too many duties, and is too zealous in performing them, to be easily bribed to abandon his calling.
The philosopher thought his views on the subjectivity of the nominalists and the objectivity of the realists had at last been appreciated; but the discovery was merely this, that the name of a person who, according to the previously imperfect science of the genealogist, ought not to have existed then and there, was referred to in a letter from Spinoza, cited in defence of certain views upon the absolute.
If he were to make drawing a resource, it might raise him a large income. But though a lover of antiquities, and therefore of expensive trifles, C.K.S. is too aristocratic to use his art to assist his revenue. He is a very complete genealogist, and has made many detections in Douglas and other books on pedigree, which our nobles would do well to suppress if they had an opportunity.
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