Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1910 — Erskine's Puns. [ARTICLE]

Erskine's Puns.

A great wit of the Scottish bar was the Hon. Harry Ersklne, who was lord advocate. Though punning Is nqt, as \ rule, a high form of wit, with Er;kine it became a fine art. On one occasion he undertook to pun on the subject of his friend’s first sentence. His friend began, “The king”— Harry Intervened. “The king,” he said, “is no subject.” Again,' a Mr. Dunlop shallenged him to pun on his name. “Nothing easier?’ said Ersklne. “Lop off the last syllable and it Is done.”— London Standard.