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"Of course; for she looks upon him as a sort of great-grand child, does she not?" said Lester. "Either that or great-great," returned Elsie lightly. "Who is mammy?" asked Evelyn. "Mamma's old nurse, who had the care of her from her birth indeed, and of her mother also and has nursed each one of us in turn. Of course, we are all devotedly attached to her and she to us.
"Here lies the body of Mrs. Mary, wife of Dr. John Bull, Esq. She died November 4, 1778, aetat. ninety, having had 13 children, 101 grandchildren, 274 great grandchildren, and 22 great-great grandchildren, a total of 410; surviving, 336." In Esher Church there is an inscription, scarcely legible, which records the death of the mother of Mrs.
Tha's my father's name and my grandfath's name, and my great grandfath's name and my great-great " "Stop," said Rex tersely, and the man stopped. "Now tell me where you live." Billy Strong leaned over and punched the man in the ribs. "You lemme tell 'em. Lives nine-thous-n sixt'-four East West Street," he addressed Rex, and chuckled. "Don't be a donkey, Billy tell me his right address."
But it would be useless, for knowing you well, I am sure that you would only hand them over to the British Government, as once you handed over the cattle of Bangu, being fashioned that way by the Great-Great, Macumazahn." "Perhaps I might, but then what should I gain, Zikali?"
"Among all the other Flycatchers, big, little, and least, I can only tell you of one more, and will choose the Wood Pewee as being the one most likely to interest you. "This morning in the wood lane I saw a pair that were surely nest-building, and I wondered if they were not the great-great- grandchildren of those who lived there when I was a boy.
Greenfield and the New York-bred business men of his class, demanding that the western pioneer banker show the same characteristics that distinguished the cultured capitalists whose great-great- grandfathers were pioneers. Rubio City he saw in the light of those eastern cities that were founded in the days when men knew not that there was any world west of the Alleghanies.
The gleam of its freshly-polished sides caught Georgina's attention an instant before she was lifted out, and it was impressed on her memory still more deeply by being put into her own hands afterwards as she sat in Mrs. Triplett's lap. Once more her tiny finger's tip was made to trace the letters engraved around the rim, as she was told about her great-great aunt and what was expected of her.
Nobody talks that way nowadays. I suppose our great-great- grandmothers did, though." She colored with pleasure, but answered lightly: "That puts me a long ways behind the times, doesn't it?" "Or a long way ahead," he offered.
Years after, the people of Ancient Greece also made him one of their many gods calling him "Hermes, the god of Wisdom." The Egyptians revered his memory for many centuries-yes, tens of centuries calling him "the Scribe of the Gods," and bestowing upon him, distinctively, his ancient title, "Trismegistus," which means "the thrice-great"; "the great-great"; "the greatest-great"; etc.
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