A GOOD JOKE

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1058, 18 June 1912, Page 3

A GOOD JOKE

“LORD BACON OF TARA-

NAKI.”

A good story is told of Mr Harry Buchanan, representative of the Gane Milking Machine Co., who has just returned from a tour of Australia. Our contemporary, the Wairoa Bell and Northern Advertiser, tells the story thus: —Mr Buchanan was an old Wairoa boy, but he went with his brother to Taranaki, and there they becames magnates in the bacon industry. On one occasion Harry found himself travelling aboard steamer with Lord Ranfutly and several other lords. In the early morning he got into the bath;com. hut when covered with soap lather, he was disturbed bj' a vigorous rat-a-tat-tat at the door. “Who’s there?” “Open the door ! ” was the imperious demand from without, accompanied by another vigorous rap. Thinking the ship might be afire, Harry opened the door. The excited purser greeeted the disclosure of some five feet odd of soap lather with the command : “ Come out of that, Lord Ranfurly wants a bath !’’ “ Lord Ranfurly be d ,’ ’exclaimed tt\e affectedly angry Harry, “ you go and tell Ranfurly that Lord ‘ Bacon ’ is having a bath.” There were so many lords on board that the purser was quite misled. He was most abject in his apologies, and went back to Lord Ranfurly with the intelligence that ' Lord Bacon ’ was having a bath. Harry enjoyed his dip after that. When he subsequently tripped across the purser he exclaimed: “Look here, old chap; I’m not a real live loid. but I’m known as one of Taranaki’s bacon kings. I was ‘ Knight of the Bath ’ and I wasn’t going to quit for any lord in creation.’’