Well Known at Eton.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 April 1914, Page 2

Well Known at Eton.

Lord Lytton -vas seated one day i-'it dinner next to a lady whose nair- w;;s Birch, and who, tradition says, was beautiful if not over-in-telligent. She said to his Excellency :— "Are you acquainted with any of the lurches ?" Replied his Excellency : "Oh, yes, 1 'Knew some of them most intimately while at Eton ; indeed, more inti-mat(-ly than I cared to." "Sir," replied the lady, "you forget that the Birches are relatives of mine." "And yet they cut me," said the Viceroy. "Hut"—and he smiled his wonted smile—"l have never felt more inclined to kiss the rod than

1 do now." Mrs. Birch, sad to soy, did not see the point, and, so the gossips have it, told her husband that his Excellency had insulted her.