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Show WERE BOTH OF MIXED BLOOD Points of Resemblance Between Englishman Eng-lishman and Cowboy, as the Latter Understood It. "The countess de Pourtales was a New York Lorillard," said a New York tobacconist. "So on both sides, of oourse, she has blue blood. Yet she is without false pride. "At a recent tobacco men's convention conven-tion a director told me of a remark the countess made in Biarritz to an arrogant Englishman. "This fellow boasted of his ancestry. The countess said that sort of talk wouldn't be understood in the wild west. She said an Englishman said to a Texas cowboy once: " 'I have Tudor blood in my veins on the maternal side and through my father's family I am a Plantaganet.' " 'Is that so?' said the' cowboy, brightening with keen interest. 'My blood's a leetle mixed, too. My grandfather grand-father was a Jersey tenderfoot and my grandmother a Digger Indian squaw. We're both half-breeds, stranger. Come and liquor up!'" Cincinnati Enquirer. |