Lord Halsbury' Pun

Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 81

Lord Halsbury' Pun

V- >hin»l tiif nrofp«f" -i nal ma^k v.-h'oh th^v are- obii^'^l io wwir thrio. ,•= a cood dftal of fun in the (oippfeition of le^al luniinaric»>

At a rf( i lit reunion of prominent «eaiP" of th.^ wic; and ?own at a well known Lon don r^.-fiin-ant, ronver-ation ia|ji'Hy became iomiiv=f mit and i-toiics flc-w thick and fa-,t. rciivnig tho im-moricb of familiar ldiosyn-cra-ic, <if rertain jmlfje, and X.C'«.

Th ' 'ii-^t p9pul»r raconteur :o ha\c been a well known professor o[

p-yehology. who has years ago abandoned! briefs, and who is wont to descond on occasions from his high intellectual plane. He tells of how, yeir3 ago, a crowd of merry-makers, bent on mischief, ctuoountered Lord Halsbury in the corridor of an hotel one night, and, running him into a neighbouring bath room, refused to let him outi until he had made \ good pun. Scarcely, stopping for breath, the future Lord Chancellor shouted from the other side m a tone of command: "0 puai the door!" and need"( less -to say he was promptly released.