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Mr Val Prinsep, the well-known R.A,i« fond of telling amusing stories about himself «nd ins profession. E»en his name proves a source of mirtb, and he likes to relate the blunders its oddity has occasioned. Once, when going to dine at a fashionable mansioD, he was accosted by the butler : " What name, sir ?" "Prinnep." " What name, sir?" " Prins-ep," with emphasis. Great w«s the aitist's amusement when he - was announced pompously as " Prince Hepp ! "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2287, 30 December 1897, Page 52
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74Elevated. Otago Witness, Issue 2287, 30 December 1897, Page 52
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