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Show Thanked Instead of Reprimanding Him. I Sir Robert Wright, appointed to the ' seat on the bench of the high court of , j justice left vacant by the death of Baron I ! Huddleeton, on one occasion, while at ' Oxford, was summoned before the Dean i I of Balliol for the purpose of being cen-1 sured. The dean was exceedingly care- ' ful of hia dignity, aa well as of his per- I sonal appearance. Wright looked, tbe j dean well up and down while the latter was delivering his lecture, and finally interrupted in-terrupted him, in the middle of one of i his most telling periods, by remarking J confidentially, "I know you will excuse me, sir, but I think you cannot be aware j that your waistcoat ia unbuttoned. " Completely nonplused, the dean waa only I able to stammer out: "Oh, thank you, Mr. Wright So very kind of you, I am sura. Good morning, good morning I" i San Francisco Argonaut. |