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PROBABLY NECESSARY. - He was always boasting' about his ancestors, and oneo day employed. a gonealogist to hunt them up. In due time the connoisseur-of pedigrees re. turned, and was- cordially. received bpy his patron. "So you have -succeeded -in tracing back my ancestors ?What'-is your-fee?" "Forty- poundi." "isn't thant high?" objected -the pa' tron. "What's it'; for?" "Principally." responded }the goneal' otlet; "forkooeeping quiet about- them. One was hanged at Tyburn."