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Katy Scudder had often instructed Mary, were brought from the Indies by her great-great-grandfather, and were her grandmother's wedding-curtains, the grandmother who had blue eyes like hers and was just about her height. The next spread was spun and woven by Mrs.
Looking to the antecedents of the family, it was only proper that the coming of age of the heir should be duly celebrated; but Lucius Mason had had no antecedents; no great-great-grandfather of his had knelt at the feet of an improper princess; and therefore Lady Mason, though she had been at The Cleeve, had not mentioned the fact that on that very day her son had become a man.
"They had the same great-great-grandfather. The last few lords have been Protestants, but in our branch the family have never forsaken the old religion." "I know," said she. "And wasn't it I've heard the story, but I'm a bit hazy about it wasn't it owing to your is 'recusancy' the word? that you lost the title? Wasn't there some sort of sharp practice at your expense in the last century?"
The great-great-grandfather of the human race was a very ugly and unattractive mammal. He was quite small, much smaller than the people of today. The heat of the sun and the biting wind of the cold winter had coloured his skin a dark brown. His head and most of his body, his arms and legs too, were covered with long, coarse hair.
His mother left him her full share of Yankee grit, and a little house in Salem which has belonged to her family for more than two hundred years. She was a Hitchcock, and the Hitchcocks had been settled in Salem since the year 1. It was a great-great-grandfather of Mr. Eliphalet Hitchcock who was foremost in the time of the Salem witchcraft craze.
The old log house in which Jason and Mavis's great-great-grandfather had spent his pioneer days had been weather-boarded and was invisible somewhere in the big frame house that, trimmed with green and porticoed with startling colors, glared white in the afternoon sun. They could see the two ponies hitched at the front gate.
They were hidden amidst masses of bones of animals that have long since disappeared from the face of the earth. We have taken these bones and they allow us to reconstruct the strange creature who happens to be our ancestor. The great-great-grandfather of the human race was a very ugly and unattractive mammal. He was quite small.
This South Point of Sinepuxent Neck is a place of historical interest, it being now asserted that it is the burial place of Edward Whalley, the regicide. Early in 1875, Mr. Robert P. Robins found in a bundle of old family documents a paper containing interesting statements written by his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Robins, 3d, of South Point, Worcester County, Maryland, and dated July 8, 1769.
What an ideal warrior he became, baffling the siege of the pests of all the land till he triumphed over their united attack. And here he lay Inyan our great-great-grandfather, older than the hill he rested on, older than the race of men who love to tell of his wonderful career.
To my great-great-grandfather am I again indebted for the few facts I am enabled to give concerning it he having once more embarked for this country, with a full determination, as he said, of ending his days here and of begetting a race of Knickerbockers that should rise to be great men in the land.
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