Notes and Queries, Vol. 7: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; Ninth Series; January-June 1901 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 7: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; Ninth Series; January-June 1901

He grieves to say that his great-grandfather eyed the family pedigree with deep distrust, and would poke fun at it across the walnuts and the wine. The Lever crest is a cock perched on a trumpet and crowing to salute the rising sun - a pun on the name (lever). Darcy Lever affirmed, over his euges, that the cock should have been a goose, cause the founder of the family, a nameless vagabond, stole a goose from a common and was caught in the act by her owner, who gave chase, shouting, Leave 'erl Leave 'sr 1 whence his surname and that of his posterity.

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