INTRICATE RELATIONSHIPS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 932, 25 March 1882, Page 3

INTRICATE RELATIONSHIPS.

The following story, from the Revue Anecdotique, is a good illustration of the French journalist’s ingenuity ; —A gentleman goes to consult a solicitor as to an application he wishes to make for a legacy to which he thinks he is entitled, and in answer to inquiries as to his exact position in the family, clearly relates his position thus :—“You see, sir, I am mar ried to a widow, who had by her first husband, a grown-up daughter. My father fell in love with the daughter and married her. Thus he became my son-in-law, and my step daughter became my mother-in-law. I had a son who was my father’s brother-in-law as well as his grandson ; and at the same time my uncle, since he was the brother of mother-in-law. My father in his turn had his son born, who was my brother and my grandson, ns well as the son of my step daughter. My wife was also mv grandmother as she was the mother of my moiher-in-law, and I was her grandson as well as her husband. Moreover, as the husband of a grandmother is necessarily a grandfather, I was my own grandfather. Thus, you will see Mr Solicitor, that my rights in the matter arejperfectly clear.