Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1902 — A Lineal Descendant. [ARTICLE]

A Lineal Descendant.

An Englishman applied to the herald’s college for a coat of arms. In such a case it is pleasant to be able to borrow one from a celebrated ancestor. The man in question could not remember anything about his greatgrandparents, and therefore, of course, could not mention any achievement by them which could be used as the basis of a coat of arms. But the official to whom be applied was not easily discouraged. “Have you not done something yourself?” he asked. “Nothing, I fear,” said the man, adding as a pathetic antithesis that once, having beei locked .n Ludgate Prison for debt, he bad found means to escape from an upper window. “And how did you get down?” “I got a cord, fixed It around the neck of King Lud’s statue, and let myself down.” “Just the thing! There you have It—honor enough. Lineally descended from King Lud. His coat of arms Is good enough for you!"