Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1913 — EARL ASKS AN INTRODUCTION [ARTICLE]

EARL ASKS AN INTRODUCTION

Reporters Induce Him, However, to Tell Whether He Wished to Catch Heiress. “Oh, I say now, you haven’t been presented to me. Really, old top, you cawn’t expect me to talk to you without an introduction,” declared the earl of Levan and Melville when he was discovered gliding behind a ventilator on the steamship Carmania as it was about to sail. “Why, your elegance,*’ said a reporter, “we don’t seed an introduction. We’re willing to take you for what you’re worth. We’ll introduce ourselves.” “But that’s all bally rot, you know," declared the frightened earl. “Why, in England the - press men wouldn’t dare to do such a thing, don’t you know. The press men here are unique; absolutely, don’t you know. You know too much. I’ve read all about you fellows, don’t you know. You are unique; you are inventive." His grace is a. Scot. He stands six feet three and is twenty-three years old. He had been shooting in this country three months, he said, and was going home. “Shooting what, rattlesnakes f in-, qulred one reporter. “Oh, no,” replied the earl. “I rhot the bull moose, don’t you know. Haw. haw, haw! I say, pretty good, what?” The nobleman had sandy half that grows all over his face. His trousers were baggy and his overcoat looked as if he had slept in It Asked if he had selected an American heiress he became indignant and refused to talk. He didn’t like this "bally country,” anyway.