I Told Her That My Forefathers Came From This Country, Which I Was Very Sure Of, Judging From My Feelings; But As I Couldn't Tell Her Any Particulars, I Didn't Go Into The Matter Very Deep.

But I did say there was a good many points that I would like to set straight, and asked her if she knew where I could find out something about English family trees.

She said she had heard there was a big heraldry office in London, but if I didn't want to go there, she knew of a person who was a family-tree-man. He had an office in London, and his business was to go around and tend to trees of that kind which had been neglected, and to get them into shape and good condition. She gave me his address, and I had kept the thing quiet in my mind until now.

I found the family-tree-man, whose name was Brandish, in a small room not too clean, over a shop not far from St. Paul's Churchyard. He had another business, which related to patent poison for flies, and at first he thought I had come to see him about that, but when he found out I wanted to ask him about my family tree his face brightened up.

When I told Mr. Brandish my business the first thing he asked me was my family name. Of course I had expected this, and I had thought a great deal about the answer I ought to give.

Enter page number Go  Previous Next
Page 206 of 218
Words from 56928 to 57183 of 60234