Show T congressman KEATINGS ANCESTORS representative keating or of colorado when a small boy was taken from missouri to the centennial state tile the family fettled at a small place called greeley in honor of the great horace tile the inhabitants were all prim new englanders whose ancestors had coie over in the mayflower and whose talk was only of their lineage keating was the only kid at school I 1 who was irish and not long on amerl american forefathers who lind fought in the revolution and this fact was a cause of constant humiliation to him for tile tho other children at school bo boasted asted dally daily in history lesson of at an uncle at hunker bunker hill or a grandfather at yorktown so one day young oung keating made up a story lie ile invented a wonderful forefather and ills his glorious deeds arid and when ho he told it to the breathless admiring class ho he was the hero of the recess hour ills mother upbraided up braided him for telling a falsehood in school 1 I just help it lie he replied abose other boys are always bragging about their ancestors and I 1 had to 1 have some to keep up with the rest another time keating was vas asked to speak at a banquet of some kind of a colonial society when he rose he smilingly said gentlemen and ladles J I 1 appreciate this honor but conf confess ewi I 1 cannot understand why I 1 am asked to address you ou when your forefathers were distinguishing themselves in the li revolutionary evolutionary war mine were hoeing cabbages in some irish garden yet the fact Is keating Is of ancient irish lineage and of its bluest blood |