A DESERVED SNUB.
"3J.A.P." tells of a young lady who, af a Highland ball at Holyrood Palace, presumed to snub the ratlier haughty heir of & ■ noble Scottish house. The yauthf al lordling was introduced to the heiress of many Tats,. and scribbled down on her programme ttW 1 ■noble name, which happens to extend to four syllables. "Is that really your name?" asked the lady; -and do you use it all at once, or have you something shorter for ev-er.vday occasions?" "Well," was tie rathor nettled answer, "I sliould have thought the name was fairly familiar to most people—at least in Scotland. Hare you never heard of my ancestor who fell at Malplaquet.or of'the famous Uord T » my ;reat, great grandfather, who fongbt -at Cuiloden?" "No, I am really afraid I v haven't," was the heiress's frank repij* "But then, you see, my great great grandfather was a bottle-washer! -.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)
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149A DESERVED SNUB. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)
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