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 ^''People don't know how entertaining a study it [genealogy] is. Who begot whom is a most amusing kind of hunting; one recovers a grand- father instead of breaking one's own neck — and then one grows so pious to the memory of a thousand persons one never heard of before?'' Horace Walpole to the Rev. Mr. Cole, 5 June 1775.