Show T 4 4 MM M T MM T I Mf M 4 4 t t ROYALTY AND ND HOGG j jt t t M M M M M t M M t M t I M t t M-ff M 4 M M H 0 M M S British Bi royalty at one time was on familiar familial terms with Bacon and there e has even been a wicked rumor that the two were wele connected by tie ties of consanguinity But that is a scandal referring to people who paid the pike long before Capt Cap John Smith paddled the or the Pilgrims landing oh on PI Plymouth mouth Rock fell on cm their knees and then fell on the aborigines In III the t time me of the Stuarts a worshipful master was knighted but we look in vain in the pages of history for fOl evidence that England's Kings or Queens ever eyer enjoyed the society or 01 acquaintance of a Hogg There e is one of the name of American America origin now in London Formerly he lie was Governor of Texas Now ow he lie raises ostriches and oil and perhaps perhaps per per- haps lulls the other thing for which his State has such a world wide reputation i Being in London he naturally naturally naturally nat nat- desired to meet the King so he lie called upon his distant r relative our ambassador whose patronymic patIo patro n originally llly must have b been en spelled Shoat and requested him liim lim to fix it up with Edward D. D G. G That was as easy enough and all went merry as asa aa a dinn dinner l' l bell until the haughty discovered ed th that tt to obtain admission to the kingly presence he must put on knee shorts and anda a a toasting foi fork There he lie drew diew the line and reared kicked and bucked He said he was willing w-illing to stand a tail spike coat although that is a thing his friend Bailey never dared to wear and one that would ruin his own popularity at home bome But for a manof manof man manof of his name to put a brace of calves calyes on exhibition would be shame indeed Hogg could be induced to dress himself in his native nathe hominy and carry a cabbage cabbage cabbage cab cab- bage leaf between his teeth but to wear weal Court dress never We Te earnestly admire his democratic simplicity If we were to call it t republican simplicity sim sini- according to common usage Hogg would not like us any more Without that stern and uncompromising uncompromising uncompromising un un- un- un compromising simplicity he be could could not exist Bereft Bereft Be Be- reft of it he Would fall down dead and die If he were here now we do not suppose that any could tempt him to holler Hogg der del Kaiser S |