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A Question Of Descent
Jests Home
A YORKSHIRE nobleman, who was fond of boasting of his Norman descent,
said to one of his tenants, whom he thought was not addressing him with
proper respect: Do you know, fellow, that my ancestors came over with
William the Conqueror?--And, perhaps, retorted the sturdy Saxon,
they found mine here when they comed.
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