WELSH BY 'EXTRACTION'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9, 4 March 1909, Page 357

WELSH BY 'EXTRACTION'

Ex-Lord Chancellor Halsbury, when leader of the South " Wales Circuit, caused much amusement amongst his friends by the manner in which he unblushingly identified himself with the" interests of the locality. During the hearing of a case, one of the judges at last could re* frain no longer from remarking on this. 'Come,' said he, ' you must not argue too much in that strain. You cannot make yourself out to be a Welshman, you know.' ' Perhaps not, my lord,' was the reply, ' but \l have made a good deal of money out of Welshmen in my time.* ' Oh, in that s case,' answered the judge, 'we may call you a Welshman by extraction.'