Show THACLU HACK IU JtOAII OUR EUnOIKAN rAlllLIEg BTAUT 11IUII UCNEAUIUIOAL IIIKU WITH TIIU LOUU Home of tits old continental famlllci literally did dale their pedlgreee from m the Hood layi the London Manilanl The Kruch family of Uroy poieeiied at one time a fine picture reprneutlng Noah with one foot In the ark exclaiming ex-claiming Uauvei In papleri I do la ruilion tie Cray The pedigree of a Weliu family the Moilyni ot Moilyn II equally remarkable It hn been preserved < among their paper hoc more than titles centuries 11 In icilbed < on Illuminated < parchment and roeaiurti over twenty feet long by o about B foot broad It beglni what Noah and n Hay ward remarks after Bailing through most of the princely houses mentioned la the Old Teiti t mint II made to now through tundry loyal and Imperial ohanueli till It reaches Udward < III where II Hope 10 that It would < nt any family claim log deioent from the riintaMUelallul In spite of aUurdltloa uf this bud probably DO Cry or Moityn nr d iceiided < te the depth of illllueii of iur f poilng tier blood wee literally I blue 11 iD Im The fact WM that In Upalu the Moorlili Invasion drove the nIII Into every kind < of extremity Maay faralllrelu their dlitrcu allied Ihemielvie with African Indian or Jewlih blood In tilts manner their diaueudahti gained whit li commonly called a dash ot the tar brush When the Moortih yoke wai eventually eventu-ally thrown ofl the old famlllri who dated from lime prevloui lo the Moor let tnvailon were particularly anxloui to maintain the purity uf their descent The bare Idea of the lIcht1 taint of African or JIb blood filled them with horror Vet nearly everybody blood wn 10 taluted when the Moor wro overthrown and the Jewa expelled ex-pelled at the end of the IlilMUth ceu lUll Thoie however who were eonllu of Iblr pure descent were naturally Inclined to be proud 01 II There was no tricu of the loathed darkfaced Moor In their veto they had never tntFimarrled < with mho oc plied Jew Hut all around them were men who were pirtly Jewlin and who whatever they might ray buts t the signs of their mixed origin In their faces Ierbii therefore II 1 wie not altogether aiionlihlug absurd ai II 1 now iiomi to ui that the Hpanlird of tune dascsnt should come to Imaiilne t that the blood or quadroon ai well ai ht complexion wai dark In color though how they came to IU ou blue ulhmolorof their own blood mu t till remain u myntery If tbny really thought was blue they mint have old It far lent often In their njuiury4 Gauss than hiitory would load u < lobe lleve Nor eau they have been very keen otiMrveri In ulhur rrepeoii 1rciumably thu climbs of thtlr olul dleu were not blur nor did the high horn Hninlih I nuiuen blush blue when HJIIOL III IOL IIJ tome H anlih Lord Jjolluller l proeled her to sitar nil hearth cud 1 home |