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Show WERE BOTH OF MIXED BLOOD Points of Resemblance Between Englishman Eng-lishman and Cowboy, as the Latter Understood It. "Tho countess do Pourtalos was a Now York Lorlllard," said a Now York tobacconist "So on both sides; of course, sho has blue blood. Yet alio Is without falso pride. "At a recent tobacco men's convention conven-tion a director told mo of a remark tho countess made In Biarritz to an arrogant Englishman. "This follow boasted of his ancestry. Tho countess said that sort or talk wouldn't bo understood in tho wild west. She said an Englishman said to a Texas cowboy onco: " 'I havo, Tudor blood In my veins on tho maternal side and through my father's family I am a Plantaganet' " 'Is that so?' Bald tho cowboy, brightening with keen interest 'My blood's a leetle mixed, too. My grandfather grand-father was n Jersoy tenderfoot and my grandmother a Digger Indian squaw. We're both half-ureeds, stranger. Come and liquor up!'" Cincinnati Enquirer. |