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ancient one. I am writing a his half a ton of armour plate overloaded phen, tory of
and the concluding volume their horses and barged at each other (as well as half a ton of armour
low) rushed to his reci will be my autobiography, the history with long spears. The Duchess of the would of me, Ulysses Ulysses-Ulysses; al- ducal master of ceremonies observed enemy, and but his foot on his med though I am a younger son. Mean that Sir Stephen was a comely knight, There was no need however, afore while, I shall be grateful for notes and gave him a bit of ribbon to wear coo-de-grass. De Molipongs neck from readers who may come across re- for luck. The Duke also was affable, broken, and his bullying career for fair allowance, but not enough, so that ferences to my ancestors in their his- and wished him a swift death, for De ever at ansend He was a good knight have to work, which is rather a torical readings. Our actual family Molipongs was twice his weight, bad as knights went, full of fantastic cour comedown for one of the Ulysseses. records do not go farther back than a longer reach, and a faster horse, testes towards men and women of his So far as the history of the last few the Oszic (or Cedric) Ulysses who more like a racer than the brewery own or higher rank (and some of them generations goes, I need not trouble died of miscarriage of justice on the dray creature my ancestor owned. were very rank) but exertising his ad- my readers (if I have any left by now) walls of Fork in 1787. That was a Anon the trumpets sounded, the flag mitted right to treat, all below that for help. We have a wealth of mater- ial-extracts from which I may print sad case, Cedric (or Osric) being hang- feil, the starting gate rose, and they rank with ample scorn and cruelty-
ed and quartered before the judge dis- were off Stephen's lance hit De Mo- I myself was born when the jovial in this column from time to time, but covered that the parties he had robbed lipongs shield, and broke off short, Edward sat the throne. My paternal as I said before, I would be grateful and killed were foreigners from Lan- leaving him with about seven feet of grandfather, who died of drink, used to for any references of allusions, letters cashire and not Yorkshiremen His broomstick
Luckily, having thought- complain that but for defective drain or documents, relating to ancestors son Chi peric in his journal repeatedly fully ducked at the moment, his op- age, the dear Prince Albert would have farther back. I contemplate bringing names him Osric, but the genealogical ponent's spear missed. They returned been spared to us. I remember him out the Work in eight octavo volumes, the exclusive of my autobiography, which table gives him as Cedric. It doesn't, to the starting flag, for the rules were (my grandfather) walking in matter, really, perhaps, but I like to best out of three, and no change of grounds at home, and being quite ex- will take mine additional volumes and have all my data right, and grudge no weapons allowed. Things looked pret cited and worked up about it. Every be sold separately if desired. The price pains to get it so. For instance, I ty bad for Stephen, but he kept his time he reached the end of the grounds, for the complete set of seventeen vo would like to know whether it was the wits at work. In the second chukker where the wheelbarrow stood, he used lumes cannot, owing to the present then head of the family or Captain Ju- he used his broken spear like a polo to kick the wheelbarrow. He was a disturbed state of world, affairs, be de- piter Ulysses (he who had the affair mallet, and shipping down one side of choleric old gentleman. He was finitely stated in advance, but sub- with Henrietta Maria, the French the saddle as they met, be swiped De found dead, with his horse standing scribers remitting to me sums of not King's sister) who was with Cromwell Molipongs horse across the legs. over him, smelling strongly of Drink less than $30 will assuredly not have when he went into parliament The Horse and rider came down like a Hong I mean my grandfather, not the horse. their money returned.
regular histories do not-mention hist name, but he is the man who, when Cromwell said "Take away that! bauble," took it away. The babble is
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not, as far as I can ascertain, still in the possession of any branch of our family, so he probably parted with it. Family pride is not snobbish conceit, and to show that I am not merely boasting, I will mention a tradition ex- isting in our family, of course not au- thenticated, which suggests how really ancient it is. We were there before the Conqueror came, and refused. "know him when he did. We did not think his Duchess was a real lady; and we did not like William's own manners- The tradition is, then, that the Lady Eve had a love-child by the Tempter, and that this infant, a lusty and ex- ceedingly beautiful male, founder of our noble line. of course, no proof of this. I give it for what it is a family tradition.. Those who believe in heredity may trace a certain influence, a measure of
BY
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"ULYSSES"
gulefulness that handicaps me Even te-day, just as it handicapped Gregory Ulysses, the, cadet who sailed with Capt. James Cook on his third voyage, but was recalled by wireless to the bed- side of his elder brother, and so miss- ed the real excitement of that voyage. It was his son (Sir Gilbert Ulysses) who was present when the first Duke of Wellington remarked that the Bat- tle of Waterloo was won by the scum of the country on the playing fields of Eton, and told him straight what hel thought of him. "You may be a Duke," he said, "but you are no gentle- man Wellington hadn't a word to say in reply. It is suggested by some! historians, on what grounds. I fail to see, that the Duke had not heard the remark. Anyway, he had no excuse to offer, and offered none.
I don't suppose my Hong Kong! readers, being mostly common folk of the lower orders, understand much heraldry, but for the sake of the China Mail subscribers in the House of Lords and elsewhere, I must mention our family arms. It is worth noting that, as titles and appended initials are to- day, so emblazoned shields in those
old days were designed to be "recog- nised in the press". The Ulysses arms; are gules with a fesse and three blindi mice or impaled dexter and a tumbler couchant sinister azure with, as sup porters, two workhouses rampant and the motto J'ai soif toujours." Orür crest was a cocktail,
A fair illustration of the family guilefulness mentioned earlier is to bel found in Sir Steven Ulysses (1372), a knight who won his spurs from La! Tour-Landry at dice. The loser did? not want them any more, as he was! going to be a monk in order to get away from his ady who scolded him! in company,
"Tims” he told my an- cester, she shall have for her eneȚle and gret language, that she was wont to zaie to me, therfore ye wif aught to suffee, and lete her husbonde-have the wondes and to be maister for that is her worshippe, even though for & generasioun yet little Padre have omitted from ye marridge service yer worde obey, for it is, shame to here striz. betwene hem and in especiall before folke." Whereupon Stephen tossed him for his horse, and won that too. Having afterwards a quarrel with a crusader called De Molipongs,
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