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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 210, 9 October 1909, Page 3

HIS OWN GRANDFATHER. It is seldom that a man claims to bo, liis ovvij grandfather. However, that is Ule position of an Italian sailor who some years ago married a widow with one child, a gir!, His father fell in love with this girl and married her. Consequently, his own father became his son-in-law, and his stepdaughter his mother.] in a short time his wife gave birth to a .son, who, naturally, was his father's stepbrother and, nt tile same time, his own uncle, since he was his stepmother's I brother. In due time his father's wife also gave birth to a boy, who was his brother'airl also his grandson, as he was the son of his diilighter. His own wife was now his grandmother, as she was the mother of liis mother. Thus in- was at one and the same time his wife's husband an:l grandson. Now, as the husband of a person's grandmother is naturally that person's grandfather, lie is forced'to the conclusion that he is liis own grandfather.