The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-05-01

diTect descendant OF Lord Bromley
a5l through him Of William tie Con
qHeror. the deacon didn't consider il
derosatory TO his dignity to make !,
! rush for the head of Il barrel appearing
! above the ice. He dared not go back
ana he dared not go forward. and h.
shouted for some one to come and
shove Il plank out OH the ice to save
his blue blood frem being chilled.
My soul. but there's Deacon l,rom.
ley standing OIL that barrel I'm the mid
die Of the goose pOnd:" exclaimed the
widow 90 rbe beard tho shorts 9ud
looted olIf Of iue window
lis Prov iIe1cs" aueNprpj Ami =.
lima, and now sou Keep hands on.
Providence and | are going to run
this show. Get my hood and sha wi and
mittens. for the conversation may last
some time
Five minutes later she stood on the
bank Of the pond. sizing the deacon up
and after bit she said
Il am Mary's Aunt Salina from Mich
igan and here on visit Did you want
to see any one in particularly
"Why-why. as was just going by.
you know. thought I would stop and
ask for any letters James might have
written"
And did James know rou were 60
ing to ask"'
mo. can't say that he did. see a
twelve foot board there by the wood
shed. May I ask you to kindly bring 1t
here and shove it out on the iceY"
What! What" exclaimed Aunt Sa.
lima as she glared at him. "Sir. want
you to know that was Thompson
before marriedv'
"Yes?"
And how dare you. sir-how dare a
Bromley ask a Thompson to- drag
boards around? It's an insult. sir-an
insult to our bloodw
Il didn't mean it SO. ! didn't know
l never heard that the Thompsons had
--had'-
Had any blood at all. you mean, SIR.
Another insult! Who do you think you
are. sir?"
You may have heard Of Lord Bron-
ley Of England?" queried the deacon.
trying to look dignified. but making a
failure Of 1t. as any man must have
done. perched in the center Of a goose
pond.
Yes. sir. have and with good rea-
son. He stole horse from a Thomp.
Sn,, on.7 u-oo no for
"You-you don't say"
"In the next generation two Brom-
leys we're branded on the palms Of
their hands for cattle stealing. In the
third one Of them went to prison for
arson. He sought to burn down the
castle Of Thompson"
Can it be possibie?"
"And In the fourth. fifth and sixth
generations the Thompsons got to-
gether all their retainers and drove all
the Bromleys out Of the country. and
the king rewarded them for It, IL It
possible that you never heard that
Lord Grassy was a thompson Doesn't
history tell you that the Duke of York
was Thompson? Why. man. there
isn't a noble 10 England today that
wasn't Thompson first He had to be- -
81 have been told that descended
from William the Conqueror." faltered
the deacon. as he felt that he had lost
his case.
But who was William the Con-
queror7 When be landed In England
1t was the Thompsons that lent him
money and paid his house rent until he
could strike a job. Deacon Bromley.
do you want that board to get ashore
on?"
III you please"
"And is 1t to save an idiot or a sen.
sible man7'
"Um: I think would like to talk
with the widow little while. l didn' t
know. you know
j "No." replied Aunt Selma as she
went after the board. "but you do now.
It's Thompson. It's Thompson with a
p It's the Thompson family. de-
scended directly from Adam and Eve,
that have been making aud unmaking
kings and emperors and dividing up
the earth for the last 5000 years and
are not through yet. There's the plank.
and now you come In and have a talk
and get over your foolishness."
The marriage took place a montl,
later. and Deacon Bromley hasn't had
a chance yet to thrash the genealogist
who paid half cash for his board.
Bathing an Ejephaot.